Bely, Andrei

Andrei Bely (1880 1934), was born Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev in Moscow. A leading symbolist, he had a close but stormy relationship with Aleksandr Blok. His poetry includes the four-volume "Symphonies" (1901 08); his prose include "The Silver Dove" (1910), "Petersburg" (1912), and "Kotik Letayev" (1922), an autobiographical novel in the manner of James Joyce. He experimented, often mixing realism and symbolism in complex forms. In his later years, Bely was influenced by Rudolph Steiner s anthroposophy. He accepted the Soviet regime, but his works were not well received by Soviet critics. By th...