Correspondence between Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934) and Alexander Blok (1880-1921), covering 1903-1919, reflected not only the history o...

Vampires... These strange creatures, who stepped out of the world of legends onto the pages of literature just two centuries ago, quickly filled the niche oc...

“One memory is indelible for me. About twelve years ago, on a colorless St. Petersburg day, I accompanied the coffin of the deceased. Walking in front of me ...

“My friend, who returned from Stockholm the day before Strindberg’s death, brought me a large portrait of him. I look at these working shoulders, at the unru...

“Twenty years have passed since the physical death of Vladimir Solovyov, that is, the period of time is completely insignificant from a historical point of v...

“The reaction that we had to endure obscured the face of life that had just awakened from us. Before our eyes are several generations who have despaired of t...

“Thirty years have passed since the death of the “apostle of anarchy” - Bakunin. For thirty years, a line of officials in black frock coats tried to shield f...

“At the first meeting of the religious and philosophical society (in 1908), German Baronov’s report “On Demotheism” (the deification of the people in Maxim G...

““Russia is dying,” “Russia is no more,” “eternal memory of Russia,” I hear around me. But in front of me is Russia: the one that our great writers saw in te...

“In his powerful and cruel, like all powerful, creation, entitled “Art and Revolution,” Wagner establishes the following truths: Art is the joy of being ones...

“The words of one English critic are true when he says that in Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Lear,” “traps are laid everywhere for the readers.” Romeo's traged...

“The liveliest, most sensitive children of our century are stricken with a disease unfamiliar to physical and spiritual doctors. This illness is akin to ment...