I am the leader of the earthly kings... Bryusov V.Ya.

The 150th anniversary of the birth of Valery Bryusov is an occasion to remember the poet that many would like to forget about. Why? The fraud that he accepted the revolution, advocated for the man of labor, for the progpecc, he considered himself a Marxist and collaborated with the People's Commissariat of Education. By that time, he managed to become a living classic, the founder of the new literary school, the leader of the Symbolists. All Russian poets of the Silver Age studied from him.

In the poem "The Coming Huns", he predicted a revolution long before 1917. During the First World War, he was a military commissar. And soon after October he became a convinced Bolshevik. In this book, we reveal the secrets of this extraordinary fate.