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Izbrannoe 'Favorites' is a collection of poems by Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый), a.k.a. Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880-1934). Bely was a poet, novelist, critic and theorist; influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kant and friend of Solovyov he became…

Mikhail IUrievich Lermontov (1814-41; Михаил Юрьевич Лeрмонтов) born into wealth and nobility in Moscow, was orphaned in early life, but received an aristocratic upbringing and an elite education. His best known narrative poem The Demon is about a…

Ia pridu na Posigelki 'I Go to Gatherings' is a collection of chastushkas, the Russian equivalent of limericks: short, rhyming, humorous, often satirical folk poems. Published by Molodaia Gvardiia (Youth Guard) a literary and political magazine of…

Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (Russian: Владиимир Сергеевич Соловьёв; January 28 [O.S. January 16] 1853 – August 13 [O.S. July 31] 1900) was a Russian philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, literary critic, who played a significant role in the development…