Valery Bryusov. Be marble. Molodyakov V.

The name of the great Russian poet Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873 - 1924), the leader of symbolism and the reformer of literature, is known to every educated person, but his biography appears for the first time. The book contains an insightful analysis of life and creative conflicts fused in the fascinating “life -creating” text. The inspired poet and demanding master, a wise teacher and an eternal student, mystic and rationalist, imperialist and Bolshevik, Bryusov-human Bryusov appears before the reader in his entire “H also-like essence”. Literary works, memoirs, diaries, letters of Bryusov and his contemporaries, friends and enemies served the author with a material for a critical biography, in which a reliable portrait of a unique creative person in the context of the era, abundant dramatic events, made up of the mosaic of facts.