“Mr. Sologub, of course, belongs to the heavy writers: his psychology, his style of writing, the ideas that occupy him - everything is like low-crawling, damp, leaden clouds. They will not please anyone’s eyes, they will not ease anyone’s soul,” wrote Vasily Rozanov about the work of Fyodor Sologub. Perhaps this is the most direct and honest definition of Sologub’s manner. His novel “Heavy Dreams” began in 1883, finished in 1894, and is considered the first Russian decadent novel. The label was assigned to all leading literary magazines immediately after publication: “Russian Thought” - “decadent nonsense mixed with crude, exaggerated naturalism”; “Russian Messenger” is “a curious literary incident, a groundless invention,” etc. But this is not a single-style work at all, there is decadence, symbolism, modernism and Sologub’s neo-mythologism. Behind the multi-layeredness lies a completely realistic story of teacher Login.