Leon Bakst Portrait of Andrei Bely

Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый) was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (October 14, 1880 (Old Style)- January 8, 1934), a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic. His miasmal and profoundly disturbing novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the twentieth century. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (284x660, 18 KB) Leon Bakst Portrait of w:Andrei Bely File links The following pages link to this file: Andrei Bely Léon Bakst ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (284x660, 18 KB) Leon Bakst Portrait of w:Andrei Bely File links The following pages link to this file: Andrei Bely Léon Bakst ... Leon Bakst (1866-1942) was a Russian painter and scene- and costume- designer. ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Petersburg or St. ... Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков; pronounced: vlah-DEE-meer nah-BAWK-awf) (April 10 O.S. [April 22/23 N.S.], 1899 - July 2, 1977) was a Russian-American author. ...

Boris Bugaev was born into a prominent intellectual family. His father, Nikolai Bugaev, was a leading mathematician who is regarded as a founder of the Moscow school of mathematics. His mother was not only highly intelligent but a famous society beauty, and the focus of considerable gossip. Young Boris was a polymath whose interests included mathematics, music, philosophy, and literature. He would go on to found both the Symbolist movement and the Russian school of neo-Kantism. Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (Russian: , September 14, 1837 - June 11, 1903 ) was a prominent Russian mathematician. ... Mikhail Nesterovs painting Vision to Youth Bartholomew (1890) is often taken as a starting point of Russian Symbolism. ...

Nikolai Bugaev was well known for his influential philosophical essays, in which he decried geometry and probability and trumpeted the virtues of hard analysis. Despite-- or because of-- his father's mathematical tastes, Boris Bugaev was fascinated by probability and particularly by entropy, a notion to which he frequently refers in works such as Kotik Letaev. Geometry (from the Greek words Geo = earth and metro = measure) is the branch of mathematics first popularized in ancient Greek culture by Thales (circa 624-547 BC) dealing with spatial relationships. ... The word probability derives from the Latin probare (to prove, or to test). ... An analysis is a critical evaluation, usually made by breaking a subject (either material or intellectual) down into its constituent parts, then describing the parts and their relationship to the whole. ... The thermodynamic entropy S, often simply called the entropy in the context of thermodynamics, is a measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work. ...

Bely's creative works notably influenced-- and were influenced by-- several literary schools, especially symbolism. They feature a striking mysticism and a sort of moody musicality. The far-reaching influence of his literary voice on Russian writers (and even musicians) has frequently been compared to the impact of James Joyce in the English-speaking world. The novelty of his sonic effects has also been compared to the innovative music of Charles Ives. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. ... This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his day job: he was the director of a successful insurance agency. ...

Bugaev's symbolist novel Petersburg (1913) is generally considered to be his masterpiece. The book is vivid and memorable, and employs a striking prose method in which sounds often evoke colors. The novel is set in the somewhat hysterical atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Petersburg. To the extent that the book can be said to possess a plot, this can be summarized as the story of the hapless Nikolai Apollonovich, a never-do-well who is caught up in revolutionary politics and assigned the task of assassinating a certain government official--- his own father. Nikolai is pursued through the impenetrable Petersburg mists by the ringing hooves of the famous bronze statue of Peter the Great. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Petersburg or St. ... Peter I Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia Peter I (Pyotr Alekseyvich) (9 June 1672–8 February 1725 [30 May 1672–28 January 1725 O.S.1]) ruled Russia from 7 May (27 April O.S.) 1682 until his death. ...

Bely has been credited with foretelling in this novel, which some have called semi-autobiographical, the Russian revolution, the rise of totalitarianism, political terrorism, and even chaos theory. The phrase Russian Revolution can refer to the following events in the history of Russia. ... Totalitarianism is a typology employed by political scientists to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior. ... The neutrality of this section is disputed. ... Chaos theory, in mathematics and physics, deals with the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that (under certain conditions) exhibit the phenomenon known as chaos, most famously characterised by sensitivity to initial conditions (see butterfly effect). ...

Bibliography

• 1902 "Second Symphony, the Dramatic";
• 1904 "The Northern, or First--Heroic";
• 1904 "Gold in Azure" (poetry);
• 1905 "The Return--Third";
• 1908 "Goblet of Blizzards--Fourth";
• 1909 "Ash";
• 1909 "Urn" (poetry);
• 1910 "Symbolism" (criticism/theory);
• 1910 "Green Meadow" (criticism);
• 1910 "The Silver Dove" (novel);
• 1911 "Arabeques" (criticism);
• 1914 "Kotik Letaev" (novel based on his childhood);
• 1917 "Revolution and Culture";
• 1918 "Christ Has Risen" (poem);
• 1922 "Recollections of Blok";
• 1922 "The First Encounter" (poem);
• 1926 "The Moscow Eccentric" (1st of trilogy of novels);
• 1926 "Moscow Under Seige" (2nd of trilogy of novels);
• 1927 "The Baptized Chinaman";
• 1931 "Masks" (3rd of trilogy of novels);
• 1930 "At the Border of Two Centuries" (1st memoir of trilogy);
• 1933 "The Beginning of the Century" (2nd memoire of trilogy);
• 1934 "Between Two Revolutions" (3rd memoire of trilogy);
• 1934 "Rhythm as Dialectic in The Bronze Horseman" (criticism);
• 1934 "The Mastery of Gogol" (criticism);