Sharnauskene, T. V. Artistic and Psychological Culture of Mythological and Social Scientific Fictional Meanings in Valery Bryusov’s Works

Abstract: The present research article is devoted to the life and creative work by a famous Russian poet and writer of the XXth century Valery Bryusov. The author of the research article describes Valery Bryusov’s views in terms of the literary movement followed by the writer. This movement is often referred to as Modernism, Decadence or Symbolism. Bryusov’s contemporaries and fellows acknowledged him as the founder of Russian symbolism. By analyzing commemorations of Bryusov’s contemporaries, documentaries from the poet’s archive and his prose, the author of the present research article views factors that contributed to the formation of Bryusov’s literary activities, his personality and world view. The author also studies the influence of social, psychological and mystic tendencies on the poet’s creative work. The author of the research article offers rather new views on the paradox of Valery Bryusov’s personality. From this point of view, the author tries to trace back the shift in Bryusov’s poetic views, his uncontrolled passion for culture, his escape from the past and search for new paths. The author concludes that Valery Bryusov had a very acute feeling of the historical moment and had a very clear vision of the past and the future of Russia.

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