Andrei Biély

Boris Nikolaevich Bugaïev , known under the pseudonym of Andrei Biély , Biély meaning “ the Russian White ” in (born the October 26th 1880 with Moscow and deceased the January 8th 1934) is a Poète and Russian writer .

Andréi Biély is regarded as one of the Russian great writers of the 20th century. He had a strong influence on the modern Russian language, a little like James Joyce on the English, and Goethe on the German . With his/her friend, Alexandre Blok, it was one of the leaders of the second Symbolist generation in Russia. Very gifted and informed in several disciplines whose Mathematical, the Natural science, the Philosophy, it was also Musicien and Dessin ator.

Biography

His/her father was a professor emeritus with the Université of Moscow where he taught mathematics. During its childhood, it is marked by Goethe, Frederic Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven, then by Nicolas Gogol and Charles Dickens.

Its influences extend in 1896 by its readings from Schopenhauer, in 1897 by those of Dostoïevsky and Ibsen; then in 1899 by its discovery of Nietzsche and the Russian philosopher Vladimir Soloviev, of Wagner like by Kant. It reads the French Veda S, and the “modern authors”.

In 1905, it remains with Saint-Pétersbourg where it attends the beginning of the Révolution Bolshevik. With Moscow it takes share with the meetings. In 1907, it remains with Paris (where it meets Jean Jaurès) to hold to with it of the conferences. Its first novel the Dove of Money is published in a review in 1909, year when it meets his future wife, Assia Tourgueneva (which it will marry in 1914 with Bern). They visited together the Sicily, the Egypt, the Tunisia and the Palestine. In 1912, it leaves for Brussels, Bergen in Norway then for Leipzig where it makes the meeting of Rudolf Steiner. Subjugated by this last, it follows it to Dornach, where it settles in 1914. It belongs to the community which builds “Johannes Bau” which was later on called Goethéanum. Assia and its Nathalie sister take an active part in the company (Assia directs the team of sculptors). Not very skilful Biély of its hands, is not really useful, also it furrows Europe according to Steiner in its lecture tours, Stuttgart, Munich, Vienna, Prague.

In 1916, it answers the call of mobilization and returns to Russia while passing by England, but it is reformed. Assia refuses to leave Dornach and its work in Goethéanum in construction. He lives then in an obsessional and grotesque world which he thoroughly describes in the Carnets of a Hat . The following year, it founds the group anthroposophic of Moscow with the anthroposophe T. Trapeznikov. It meets for the first time that which will be his second wife in 1925, Klavdia Nikolaïevna Vassilieva. It publishes Glossolalie, a critical test of poetry on the origin of the language, the way in which the words are born in the mouth, the conformity of the sound and the direction.

Like Blok, Biély supports the Russian Révolution utopistement. However, in 1919, disappointed by the Russian revolution, it notes that there will not be a “revolution of the spirit”. In 1920, it founds with Ivanov-Razumnik the VOL-FILA (free Association of Philosophy) of which it chaired the Muscovite branch. It tests doubts about the Anthroposophie. Very quickly its independence with regard to the strict Marxist doctrines had been badly tolerated capacity. Several members of association had been stopped then slackened, the group was more and more supervised by Tcheka, and was finally interdict in Moscow at the beginning of 1921, but Lénine agrees to let it leave abroad.

In 1921, settles in Berlin, where almost all the Russian intellectuals are. Assia means their final separation to him. They will still meet in Berlin in 1922 qpuis in Stuttgart in 1923 for the report of separation. Klavdia Nikolaïevna Vassilieva then joined it in Berlin. They return together to Moscow, to the USSR where Leon Trotsky condemns with contempt the Biély writer in his work “ Littérature and Révolution ”.

In 1931, the couple settles close to Leningrad. Two years later, it undergoes a first heart attack and dies in Moscow on January 8th, 1934. With its death, its work includes/understands 46 volumes and more than 300 articles, accounts, drafts,…

Principal works

Friedrich Nietzsche (new in French) (Stalker editor-2006)
dramatic Symphonie (1902)
heroic Symphonie (1903)
the Scandinavian Symphony (1904)
Or on Azure (1904)
the Return (1905)
the Cut of the Storms snows (1908) - (Fourth symphony)
Urnes (1909) collection in worms
Cendres (1909) collection in worms
the Dove of money (1909)
Arabesques (1911) collection of articles
Kotik Létaïev (1915)
Pétersbourg (1916/1922)
Glossolalie (1917)
Christ is ressuscity (poem, 1918)
Carnets of a Hat (undertaken in 1918, and published in 1922)
the Chinese baptized (1922)
Souvenirs on A. Blok (1922)
Moscow (1926)
Souvenirs on Rudolf Steiner (1929)

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