Valeri
Bryusov
was born in Russia, in 1873. The son of a
wealthy merchant he received an expensive education before studying
at Moscow University.
Bryusov
wrote poetry and became an important symbolist poet. In 1894 he began
editing and publishing the journal Russian
Symbolists.
Bryusov's
first volume of verse, Urbi et Orbi,
was published in 1903. The following year he established the literary
review, Scales, and over the next
few years was acknowledged as the leader of the symbolist movement.
Bryusov also published The Pale Horse
(1904), Stephanos (1905) and the
novel, The Fire Angel
(1907).
After the
October Revolution Bryusov joined the
Bolsheviks. He was made head of the government's unit established
to control the publication of literature. He was soon discovered to
be unreliable and was replaced. However, his poetry was accepted as
being ideologically correct and was promoted by the government. Valeri
Bryusov died in 1924.
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