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Abstract:

The articles and materials assembled in the book provide insight for the different aspects of Andrey Bely’s life, writing, beliefs and values. Among other things the book regards such topics as Bely and visuality, Bely and mathematics, Bely and music, Bely and his self-reflection, Bely and problems of translation of his works. The book gives special attention to Bely’s poetic manner, literary and ideological context of his work, the ambit of his friends and acquaintances, the reception of Bely’s personality and works by his contemporaries. A considerable part of the book consists of publications: poet G. Sannikov’s and philosopher A. Gorsky’s notes about Andrey Bely, the Russian anthropologists’ memoirs about R. Steiner related to Bely’s Reminiscences about Steiner, ego-documents concerning the Turgenev sisters, Asya and Natasha, and their relatives (V.N. Campioni, A.M. Pozzo). The multi-authored monograph is largely based on the materials for the Anniversary International Conference Andrey Bely in the Changing World held in October 2020 by the Andrey Bely Memorial Flat (a branch of the Moscow State Pushkin Museum) and Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS). The authors are world-renowned scholars from Russia and abroad.

Keywords: Andrey Bely, biography, literary work, poetic manner, values and beliefs, memoirs, cultural and political context.