Russian poet and prose writer, playwright and translator, one of the founders of Russian symbolism Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was born on December 13, 1873 in Moscow in a merchant family. The future writer of symbolism was the grandson of the poet-fable painter I. Ya. Bakulin, whose surname Bryusov signed some of his works.
The father of Valery Bryusov was a gambling man, and once carried away by horse racing, he lost all his fortune on the sweepstakes. Valery himself was also interested in horse
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Russian poet and prose writer, playwright and translator, one of the founders of Russian symbolism Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was born on December 13, 1873 in Moscow in a merchant family. The future writer of symbolism was the grandson of the poet-fable painter I. Ya. Bakulin, whose surname Bryusov signed some of his works.
The father of Valery Bryusov was a gambling man, and once carried away by horse racing, he lost all his fortune on the sweepstakes. Valery himself was also interested in horse racing, but in a different vein - the first independent publication of Bryusov appeared in the magazine "Russian Sport" in 1889 and was an article in defense of the sweepstakes.
Since childhood, Bryusov connected his life with poetry: while studying at the gymnasium, Bryusov composed poems, and in his adolescence he considered Nekrasov his literary idol and was fascinated by Nadson’s poetry. Then, in the 1890s, Valery became interested in the works of French symbolists - Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarme. Impressed by the French, Bryusov creates the drama Decadents. (The End of the Century), which tells of Verlaine's relationship with