Title: Poets of hope and despair
Subjects: History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Literature and the revolution, Literature and the war, Russian literature, Symbolism (Literary movement), World War, 1914-1918
Places: Russia
People: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921), Andrey Bely (1880-1934), Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865-1941), Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927), Konstantin Dmitrievich Balʹmont (1867-1942), Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873-1924), Vi︠a︡cheslav Alekseevich Ivanov (1889-1965), Z. N. Gippius (1869-1945)
Time periods: 1801-1917, 19th century, February Revolution, 1917