The poetic work of Ellis (L.L. Kobylinsky), an outstanding poet, translator, and theorist of symbolism, is practically unknown to the modern reader. “The Knight Without Treason,” the only singer of Mary in Russian poetry, Ellis combined in himself the seemingly incompatible - Dante and Baudelaire; the highest religious rise and "Flowers of Evil". “One of the most passionate early symbolists, a scattershot poet, a man of genius,” M. Tsvetaeva wrote about Ellis. The book includes both of Ellis’s poetry collections “Stigmata” and “Argo” published at the beginning of the century, a collection of translations of “Immorteli” and fragments of the unpublished manuscript “Cross and Lyre”, published in the Parisian magazine “Symbol”. net