Adelaide Gertsyk (1874–1925) was a poet, prose writer, translator and critic. At the beginning of the 20th century, her Moscow apartment became a kind of literary and philosophical salon, in which N. Berdyaev, L. Shestov, M. Tsvetaeva, M. Voloshin and other philosophers and poets gathered, who highly valued Adelaide Kazimirovna’s intelligence, sincerity and education. Like all of her work, A. Gertsyk’s poems are closely related to the religious and philosophical quests characteristic of the Russian intelligentsia at the beginning of the century. Mystical motifs predominate in her poetry; the poetess strives to listen to the secrets of nature and convey the voices hidden in it. Gertsyk often turns to folklore genres, reproduces lamentations and folk songs, and it is no coincidence that a number of her poems were set to music. Symbolist criticism called Adelaida Kazimirovna a sibyl and prophetess, and pointed to the connection of her poetry with mythological layers of consciousness.