Valery Bryusov

Valery Bryusov (1873–1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator and critic, and one of the principal figures of the Russian Symbolist movement. Born in Moscow into a merchant family, he graduated from Moscow University in 1899 and began his literary career in the 1890s with translations of the French Symbolists and his own verse. His best-known prose work is the novel The Fiery Angel (1908). He died in Moscow in 1924.

December 13, 1873