Chapter 4. Two Meetings
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

In the latter part of 1898, Ivan Konevskoi made two new acquaintances, each of whom, in very different ways, was to have a profound effect on his life and his poetry. The first was Anna Nikolaevna Gippius, of the famous Gippius family, whom he met soon after his return from Riazan' . The second was Valerii Briusov, whose acquaintance he made on 12 December in St. Petersburg. The relationship with Briusov, primarily literary in nature, generated an active correspondence and numerous mutual visits