Publisher's Synopsis
The book is a collection of articles and publications by Konstantine Azadovsky, St. Petersburg historian of literature, critic and translator, and reflects his many years of research in the field of Russian literature of the Silver Age. A free interpretation of this term, long established in Russian and foreign Russian Designation of the cultural Renaissance of the early twentieth century, allows the author to connect The pages of the book are far, it would seem, "names and events" the Narodnik search for Russian symbolism (Alexander Dobrolyubov-Blok-Klyuev), colorful episodes of St. Petersburg Literary and artistic life after 1905 (evenings at the "Tower" Vyacheslav Ivanov, Masquerades in the apartment of Fyodor Sologub), the first public appearances Yesenin and the birth of a "new peasant" group. Special attention Paid to the poet Konstantin Balmont and the artist Margarita Sabashnikova (the first wife of Maximilian Voloshin). The book ends with letters from writer Boris Lazarevsky, dedicated to AP Chekhov, whose work is in close contact - both chronologically and literally - with the era of Russian modernism.
