Fyodor Sologub

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Fyodor Sologub was a prominent Russian writer associated with the Symbolist movement in Russian literature. This literary period, often referred to as the Silver Age, spanned from the 1890s to 1917 and was characterized by a blend of mysticism, aestheticism, and various philosophical ideas. Sologub, alongside other Symbolists like Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Konstantin Balmont, and Valery Bryusov, sought to explore higher realities through art. He is known for his melancholic poetry and his novel The Petty Demon (1907), which depicts a disturbing character study of a sadistic and paranoid schoolteacher.1

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Russian literature
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…erotic, and religious poetry; and Fyodor Sologub, author of melancholic verse and of a novel, Melky bes (1907; The Petty Demon), about a sadistic, homicidal, paranoid schoolteacher.
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…erotic, and religious poetry; and Fyodor Sologub, author of melancholic verse and of a novel, Melky bes (1907; The Petty Demon), about a sadistic, homicidal, paranoid schoolteacher.
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