The Petty Demon: The Russian Symbolist Classic

I wanted to burn her, the wicked witch.

After Mass the members of the congregation scattered to their homes. A few stopped to talk under the old maples and lindens near the white stone walls, within the enclosure. All were in holiday dress and looked at one another cheerily. It appeared as if the inhabitants of this town lived peacefully and amicably—even happily. But it was only in appearance.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the sort. They're denouncing me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them".

Sologub began the serialization of his greatest and most bizarre work, The Created Legend (1907

Solovyov’s theories were to have a profound effect on a later generatio of symbolist writers that would include both Alexander Blok 1880–1921) and Andrei Bely (1880–1934). However, the first genuine “manifesto” of the new artistic and philosophical sensibilities is usually accredited to Dmitri Merezhkovsky