Innokenty Annensky

Annensky was born into the family of a public official in Omsk on September 1 N.S. 1855. In 1860, while still a child, he was taken to Saint Petersburg. Innokenty lost his parents early on, and was raised in the family of his older brother, Nikolai Annensky, a prominent Narodnik and political activist. In 1879 Innokenty graduated from philological department of St Petersburg University, where he concentrated on Historical-comparative linguistics. He himself became a teacher, and taught classical languages and ancient literature studie ...

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Nikolai was born in Kronstadt, into a family of a naval physician Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilev (1836—1920) and Anna Ivanovna L'vova (1854—1942). He studied at the gymnasium of Tsarskoe Selo, where the Symbolist poet Innokenty Annensky was his teacher. Later, Gumilev admitted that it was Annensky's influence that turned his mind to writing poetry. His first publication were verses I run from cities into forest (Russian: Я в лес бежал из городов) on September 8, 1902. In 1 ...

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19th century is traditionally referred to as the "Golden Age" for Russian literature. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Zhukovsky and Aleksandr Pushkin came to the fore, followed by Mikhail Lermontov. Nineteenth-century developments included Ivan Krylov the fabulist; non-fiction writers such as Belinsky and Herzen; playwrights such as Griboedov and Ostrovsky; poets such as Evgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Fyodor Tyutchev, ...

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Russian Symbolism - Beginnings. Primary influences on the movement were irrationalistic and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir Solovyov, with the latter's conceipts of Godmanhood and feminine world soul. Among foreign influences the most important were German philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, French poetes maudits, Sca ...

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Probably the most important Russian Symbolist painter was Mikhail Vrubel, who achieved fame with a large mosaic-like canvas Seated Demon (1890) and went mad while working on the dynamic and sinister Demon Downcast (1902). Other Symbolist painters associated with the World of Art magazine were Victor Borisov-Musatov, a follower of Puvis de Chavannes; Mikhail Nesterov, who painted religious subjects from medieval Russian history; Mikhail Dobuzhinsky, with his urbanistic phantasms, and Nicholas Roerich, w ...

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The foremost Symbolist composer was Aleksandr Scriabin who in his First Symphony praised art as a kind of religion. Le Devin Poem (1905) sought to express the evolution of the human spirit from pantheism to unity with the universe. Poème de l'extase, first given in 1908 in New York, was accompanied by the elaborately selected colour projections on a screen. In Scriabin's synthetic performances music, poetry, dancing, colours, and scents were used so as to bring about supreme, final ecstasy. Similar ideas on the stage fusion o ...

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When the WWI started, Gumilyov rushed to Russia and enthusiastically joined a corps of elite cavalry. For his bravery he was invested with two St. George crosses (December 24, 1914 and January 5, 1915). His war poems were assembled in the collection The Quiver (1916). During the Russian Revolution, Gumilyov served in the Russian expedition corps in Paris. Despite advice to the contrary, he rapidly returned to Petrograd. There he published several new collections, Tabernacle and Bonfire, and finally divorced Akhmat ...

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In 1920 Gumilyov co-founded the All-Russia Union of Writers. Gumilyov made no secret of his anti-communist views. He also crossed himself in public and didn't care to dissimulate his contempt for half-literate Bolsheviks. On August 3, 1921 he was arrested by Cheka on allegation that he was a monarchist. Most historians believe that it was one of the first entirely fabricated cases by Cheka. On August 24 Petrograd Cheka decreed execution of all 61 participants of Tagantsev Conspiracy, including Nikolai Gumilev. The exact date ...

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Fyodor Sologub was the first Symbolist to introduce into the Russian prose a morbid, pessimistic outlook characteristic of Fin de siècle. His most famous novel, Petty Devil (1906), is an attempt to work out a polysemantic symbol of Evil, by turns attractive and repulsive, elusive and blatant. Later he wrote several books about an ideal world, wherein a river called Ligoy flows through a land called Oyle under a star called Mair, etc. Another Symbolist writer to comment on the life in provincial Russia was Aleksey Mikhailovich Remizov, who, drawing on the medieval Russian literature, grotes ...

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In 1910, Gumilyov fell under the spell of the Symbolist poet and philosopher Vyacheslav Ivanov and absorbed his views on poetry at the evenings held by Ivanov in his celebrated "Turreted House". His wife Anna Akhmatova accompanied him to Ivanov's parties as well. Gumilyov and Akhmatova married on April 25. On September 18, 1912, their child Lev was born. He would become one of the most popular historians in Russia. Dissatisfied with the vague mysticism of Russian Symbolism, then prevalent in the Russian poetry, Gumilyov and Sergei Gor ...

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The end of the 20th century and the early 21st century has proven a difficult period for Russian literature, with relatively few writers raising above the mass of pulp fiction, such as Victor Pelevin or Vladimir Sorokin. Of course, only history will reveal the final worth of this period. In the early 21st century the reading public in Russia has shown considerable interest in new quality literature. Many new authors have emerged, along with new publishing companies, new brands and new literature series. Traditional Russian prose remai ...

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List of Russians - A-K. Alexei Abrikosov, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, mathematician Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, astronomer and astrophysicist Delibash Boris Apostolovich, worked on the Sputnik program. Lev Artsimovich, physicist Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, mathematician Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Nobel Prize winner Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, mathematician Vladimir Mikhailovich Behterev, psycholog ...

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List of Russians - Before 1917. See also Tsar for the list of old Russian rulers Alexis (1629-1676), "Aleksey Mikhaylovich the Quietest" Alexander I (1777-1825), "Alexander the Blessed" Alexander II (1818-1881), "Alexander the Liberator" Alexander III (1845-1894), "Alexander the Peacemaker" Alexandra (1872-1918), Tsarina of Russia Alexius Petrovich (1690-1718) Anastasia (1901-1918), youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II ...

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List of Russians - Chess. Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov (b. 1963, father Jewish, mother Armenian) Victor Korchnoi Vladimir Kramnik Alexander Motylev Vasily Smyslov Boris Spassky Mikhail Tal List of Russians - Gymnastics. Nikolai Andrianov (b. 1952), gymnast, world record for men for most Olympic medals Yelena ...

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Other genres came to the fore with the approach of the 20th century. Anton Chekhov excelled in writing short story, short stories and drama, and Anna Akhmatova represented innovative lyricists. The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. Well-known writers of the period include: Anna Akhmatova, Innokenty Annensky,Andrei Bely,Alexander Blok, Valery Bryusov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sergei Esenin, Nikolay Gumilyov, Daniil Kharms, Velimir Khlebnikov, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris ...

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Sovietization of Russia affected literature after 1917. Maxim Gorky, Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov, Valentin Kataev, Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilf and Petrov came to prominence as part of Soviet literature. Whilst Socialist realism gained official support in the Soviet Union, some of the writers -- such as Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Platonov, Osip Mandelstam, Isaac Babel and Vasily Grossman -- secretly continued the classical tradition of Russian literature, writing "under the table", with no hop ...

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