"The academic career of Professor Magnus Ljunggren spans more than a half century. Here he looks back over his meetings with leading members of the Russian intelligentsia who, from the liberalizing Tw
Ljunggren introduces the Russian Symbolists, a group of poets, philosophers, and mystics in Moscow and Petersburg who dreamed of a new era that would revolutionize the Russian way of life and transfor
A century ago the Symbolists in Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these poets, philosophers, and mystics
