Fyodor Sologub
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Fyodor Sologub, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, also known as Theodor Sologub, was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the mor
Sologub in 1910
Fyodor Sologub & Anastasia Chebotarevskaya (1914)
Sologub in 1913
Russian symbolism
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Russian symbolism was an intellectual, literary and artistic movement predominant at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. It arose separately from West European symbolism, and emphas
Fyodor Sologub
…Kuzmich Teternikov (Russian: Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников; 1 March [O.S. 17 February] 1863 – 5 December 1927), also known as Theodor Sologub, was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European…
Alexandre Benois, Illustration to Alexander Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, 1904. The Russian capital was often pictured by symbolists as a depressing, nightmarish city.
Vsevolod Meyerhold in his production of Alexander Blok's Puppet Show (1906)
Mikhail Nesterov's painting The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890) is often considered to mark the inauguration of the Russian Symbolists.
Alexandre Benois designed symbolist sets for Stravinsky's Petrushka in 1911.