The Fate of Apollo Grigoryev

Half a century ago, Apollon Alexandrovich Grigoriev—an outstanding Russian poet and thinker of the 1840s—passed away. Yet only a small amount from his legacy was published: a modest collection of poems and the first volume of his “Collected Works”; today both books are bibliographic rarities, especially the poems. As of now, there is still not a single serious, in-depth study of Grigoriev: both a unified biographical sketch and a scholarly biography are missing. Almost nothing has been done either to compile his bibliography, which could have turned into a full volume. Where most of his manuscripts are kept is unknown…