Lou Andreas-Salomé began an affair with German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1897 and became a formative influence on his life. She suggested he change his first name from René to Rainer. He dedicated to her his poem-cycle The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (1905), which he began writing after visiting Russia with Salomé and her husband in 1899.
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