Valery Bryusov

Valery Bryusov (1873-1924), born in Moscow into a merchant family, published in 1894 and 1895, under several names, three collective volumes intended to give substance to Russian symbolism. After 1900 he became the authority of the movement, and from 1904 he directed the journal Vesy, its main organ. A great translator, he introduced Russian readers to Verlaine, Verhaeren and Poe, and translated Virgil and Goethe. He stayed in Russia after the revolution, joined the Communist Party and died in Moscow on 9 October 1924.

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• PoetryUrbi et OrbiValery Bryusov · 1903not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain