In her new book dedicated to the myth-making of Andrei Bely, Monika Spivak explores his autobiographical practices and strategies, from his first appearance on the literary stage to his desperate attempts to preserve his life, face and place in literature under Soviet rule. The author shows Bely in his spiritual ups and minor weaknesses, as a great writer and at the same time as a funny, often absurd person, as a symbolist, anthroposophist and mystic, as the leader of the Argonauts circle, the ideologist of the "Scythians" almanac and the developer of the concept of the journal "Notes of Dreamers" .Particular attention in the monograph is paid to the relationship of the writer with his contemporaries, both creative (V. Ya. Bryusov, K. A. Balmont, etc.) and personal (Ivanov-Razumnik, P. P. Pertsov, E. K. Medtner) , as well as the construction of the posthumous image of Andrei Bely in the works of M. I. Tsvetaeva and O. E. Mandelstam. Monika Spivak fits Bely’s work into the literary and socio-political context, analyzes in detail the main mythologies and language of the Moscow Symbolists of the early 1900s, and also presents a new look at the history of the last Symbolist publishing house “Alkonost” (1918–1923), in whose work Bely took part active participation.Monica Spivak - Doctor of Philology, head of the Department of Literary Heritage at the Institute of World Literature. A. M. Gorky RAS, head of the Andrei Bely Memorial Apartment (branch of the State Museum named after A. S. Pushkin).