13 Facts About Andrei Bely

Andrei Bely was a committed anthroposophist and follower of Rudolf Steiner.

Andrei Bely's poems were set to music and performed by Russian singer-songwriters.

Andrei Bely's father, Nikolai Bugaev, was a noted mathematician who is regarded as a founder of the Moscow school of mathematics.

Andrei Bely was a pianist, providing Bugaev his musical education at a young age.

Andrei Bely was a polymath whose interests included mathematics, biology, chemistry, music, philosophy, and literature.

Andrei Bely would go on to take part in both the Symbolist movement and the Russian school of neo-Kantianism.

Andrei Bely's ideas covering this philosophy included his attempts to connect Vladimir Solovyov's philosophical ideas with Steiner's Spiritual Science.

Andrei Bely spent time between Switzerland, Germany, and Russia, during its revolution.

Andrei Bely supported the Bolshevik rise to power and later dedicated his efforts to Soviet culture, serving on the Organizational Committee of the Union of Soviet Writers.

Andrei Bely started his literary career as the author of The Symphonies, a cycle experimental prose works, written from 1900 to 1908.

Andrei Bely wrote poems Christ is Risen, in which he glorifies the Revolution, Glossolalia, and The First Encounter.

Fyodor, poet and main character, praises the system Andrei Bely created for graphically marking off and calculating the 'half-stresses' in the iambs.

Fyodor, after discovering Andrei Bely's work, re-read all his old iambic tetrameters from the new point of view, and was terribly pained to find out that the diagrams for his poems were instead plain and gappy.