Kuzmin Mikhail

The pages to come provide a very partial account of this overall story. They focus on two major literary currents - symbolism and acmeism - and on two important writers - Innokentii Annenskii and Mikhail Kuzmin -whose work serves as a bridge between the two movements. They also illuminate many of the debates on aesthetics and poetics, on spirituality, sexuality, and class, on national identity and the crisis of empire, that informed the cultural production of the time. My preference has been to flesh out one dominant tendency in Russian modernism, which might be termed neotraditionalist, instead of surveying the myriad names and groupings associated with Russian modernism as a whole. 

Malmstad, John E., and Nikolay Bogomolov. Mikhail Kuzmin a Life in Art. 

II Kuz min, Mikhail, Stikbotvoreniia, ed. N.A. Bogomolova (St Petersburg Aka-demicheskii proekt, 2.000), p. 26. Kuzmin s poetry can be found in English in an electronic version translated by John Barnstead at the Kuzmin Collection, 1999), Dalhousie University Electronic Text Centre at www.dal.ca/kuzmin/toc e.html. 

Grossman, Joan Delaney and Paperno, Irina, eds.. Creating Life The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism (Berkeley University of California Press, 1994). Malmstad, John E. and Bogomolov, Nikolai, Mikhail Kuzmin A Life in Art (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1999). 

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