VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV (1873-1924) Late Poem ‘Carousel’. [‘Карусель’] 1922 Autograph poem

No place, no date, [1922]. Number ‘4’ in pencil beside the title, 40 verses. In Russian. 1p. approx 36 x 22 cm Evocation of a fairground ride on a July evening, Composition, 12 July 1922. Bryusov is one of the most prominent Russian Symbolist poets; his early poems were inspired by his translations of the French Symbolists. He was one of the few Symbolist poets to remain in Russia after 1917, and played an active part in the new Soviet literary institutions. ‘Electron world’ in particular is characteristic of his interest in the scientific and the exotic in his later poetry.