“The Beginning of the Century” is the second book in Andrei Bely’s memoir trilogy. The memoirs cover the period from 1901 to 1905. They depict portraits of prominent writers and artists, talk about the origins of symbolism, and recreate the social and literary atmosphere of Russia at the beginning of the century. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.