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Russian symbolism
Activities and events of the Symbolist movement in 19th-century Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russian symbolism was an intellectual, literary and artistic movement predominant at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. It arose separately from West European symbolism, and emphasized defamiliarization and the mysticism of Sophiology.[1][2]
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