“The fate of a writer is a difficult, terrible, insidious fate. Nowadays, in Russia - especially. It seems that never before have writers found themselves in...

“Our memory is terribly short. We live with our hands and feet tied, and the most modest of our endeavors often end in failure. Everything “winds and spins” ...

Poem by one of the greatest poets of the Silver Age, A. Blok.

“In the psychology of people who have material and moral wealth, there is one deeply rooted feeling: a feeling of disgust for people who are very unhappy, un...

Poems by Alexander Alexandrovich Blok, written in 1909–1916. and included in the collection “Scary World.”

“Thinking about the school concepts of modern literature, I imagine a large plain, over which a low, heavy vault of heaven is thrown like a blanket. Here and...

Blok’s music, born at the turn of two eras, absorbed both the acceptance of a terrible world with its torment and death, and the fascination with a strange w...

“If Gogol lived among us now, we would treat him the same way as most of his contemporaries: with horror, with anxiety and, probably, with hostility: this on...

“It was the purest and brightest holiday in the world. It was a memory of the golden age, the highest point of that feeling that is now on its way out - the ...

“There is a very widespread opinion among the general public that new Russian fine literature is in decline. The last name that is pronounced with conviction...

“Getting ready to watch Wedekind's play, I was afraid of subtle erotomania. This fear did not apply to the theater, which opened the season with Wedekind, an...

“The St. Petersburg literary season, with all its rather monotonous details, has begun. Literary evenings have also begun - one of the most harmful details. ...