Last Pages from a Woman's Diary

We invite you to listen to works by one of the founders of Russian symbolism—the poet, prose writer, translator, and literary critic Valery Bryusov—performed by Dmitry Bykov.

The audiobook includes the novella “The Last Pages from a Woman’s Diary,” which received many responses from contemporaries. As critic S. A. Vengerov wrote, Bryusov “even in the era of ‘daring’ and all kinds of unbridled looseness was exceptionally strong in the fact that about the most slippery plots he knew how to speak plainly, without winking.”

The audiobook also includes poems and the concluding poems from the collection “Tertia Vigilia,” as well as Pushkin’s completed poem “Egyptian Nights,” which Bryusov finished.

And, as tradition has it, Dmitry Bykov tells about the author of the works you’ve just listened to.