Fireflow. Amphitheatrov A.

Alexander Amphitheatrov is the largest Russian fiction writer of the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, vividly and vividly conveyed in his works the amazing atmosphere of the turning point of our history... The novel “Fire -Tsvet” (1895) is read as an encyclopedia of fears of Russian society of the late XIX century and together with Those as a witty parody of a “occult novel” fashionable at that time. Amphitheaters shows brilliant erudition in the field of Russian folklore, oriental traditions and spiritualism became fashionable. Placing their heroes in the world of superstitions and magic, exotic rituals and alchemical experiments, the author primarily observes the person of his time that is reborn between healthy rationality and archaic ideas about the world order...