Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Valery Bryusov
Born: December 13, 1873
Died: October 9, 1924 (aged 50)
Bio: Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.
Known for:
- The Fiery Angel (1908)
- Republic of the southern cross
- Tertia Vigili
- Sem' Tsvetov Radugi
- Perepiska, 1904-1913