Andrei Bely was a prolific genius of Russian Symbolism whose main achievements lay not just in the spheres of poetry, prose fiction, and philosophy but also in the fusion of different discourses into a singular and apocalyptic vision. Bely's breathless...

MY EVENING WITH ANDREI the international orphan began when friends Jim and Kate, his adoptive parents, dropped him off on their way to a concert. I was their last resort; apparently every babysitter in Arlington had been booked this Saturday night. There was...

ANDREI Andreyevich Gromyko, dead at 79, came to personify not so much the Soviet Union-Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and his other bosses did that-as the Soviet bureaucrat: the loyal follower who subordinated his own personality to the Communist Party's apparatus and line. Over a full...

In the following excerpt, Cioran analyzes the function of apocalyptic symbols in Bely's Symphony poems, asserting that the theme of apocalypse is the key to understanding his work.

In the following excerpt, Smith elucidates the factors that have inhibited critical attention to Bely's poetry, in particular the poet's extensive revision of his work.

Janaček has translated The First Encounter by Bely and edited a collection of critical essays about him. In the following excerpt, he emphasizes the importance of typographical experimentation in Bely's poetry.