Severny Vestnik
In May 1890 Liubov Gurevich, the new head of the revamped "Severny Vestnik", turned a former narodnik's safe haven into the exciting club for members of the rising experimental literature scene, labeled "decadent" by detractors. Merezhkovsky's new drama "Sylvio" was published there, the translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" followed suit. Other journals became interested in the young author too: "Russkaya Mysl" published his poem "Vera" (later included in his "The Symbols" compilation), hailed as one of the Russian Symbolism's early masterpieces, its colourful mysticism providing a healthy antidote to narodniks's "reflections" of the social life. Bryusov "absolutely fell in love with it," and Pyotr Pertsov years later admitted: "For my young mind Merezhkovsky's "Vera" sounded so much superior to this dull and old-fashioned Pushkin".