Chief of the Russian decadence (phenomenon of V. Ya. Bryusov)
The article provides an analysis of V. I. Bryusov's creative career. Already on the eve of his ascension to the poetic Olympus, the poet considered the correlation of decadence, spiritualism and eroticism to be a sign of future success. A poetic tradition, which ended with Pushkin, was resumed in Russian with Briusov: poetry once again, and for a long time to come, assumed a leading position in literature.