Apollon (magazine)

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Advertising poster for Apollon (1911).

Apollon (Russian: Аполло́н) was a Russian avant-garde literary magazine that served as a principal publication of the Russian modernist movement in the early 20th century. It was published between 1909 and 1917 in Saint Petersburg.

History and profile[edit]

Apollon was established by the literary critic S. K. Makovsky in 1909[1] and soon became a venue for the polemics that marked the decline of the symbolist movement in Russian poetry. It was first a monthly supplement of the Literaturny Almanakh.[1] Then its frequency became ten times a year.[1] The headquarters of the magazine was in St Petersburg.[2] In 1910, two seminal essays that appeared in Apollon -- Mikhail Kuzmin's On Beautiful Clarity (O prekrasnoy yasnosti) and Nikolai Gumilyov's The Life of Verse (Zhizn' stikha) -- heralded the emergence of Acmeist poetry.[3] The magazine ceased publication in 1917.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Apollon". Monoskop. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov". Britannica. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  3. ^ Tim Scholl (2003). From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernisation of Ballet. Taylor & Francis. p. 106.

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