“In the midst of the “feuilletonistic era” and – at the same time – the “Ahrimanic Fall”, in the century of the Bloody Revolution, which buried idealism for a long time and successfully put into dust everything that was high, everything elitist, I wanted to revive the Symbolist magazine on a new basis a pre-revolutionary type of magazine, a magazine for the few, which has nothing in common with “stamped culture”; a magazine started by the spirit of the Silver Age - the last creatively flourishing era of Russian literature and genuine intellectual culture..."