Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was a Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century and in the spiritual renaissance of the early 20th century.
V. Solovyov in the 1880s
V. Soloviev, S. Trubetskoy, N. Grot, L. Lopatin, 1893
Portrait of Vladimir Solovyov by Ivan Kramskoy, 1885
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 emphasized defamiliarization and the mysticism of Sophiology.
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.