All thoughts of coming out into the light are locked away. Diaries of the 1930s

Fifteen years ago, rumors walked that the late diaries of Andrei Bely were not published because they were “too crazy " - although, which means“ too crazy ”regarding the author of“ Petersburg ”is not entirely clear. The case, of course, was different: the diary records of Bely were preserved fragmentarily, some of them were seized by the OGPU, and for the publication of the preserved, it was required to carry out a thorough archival and textual work, for which Monica Lvovna Spivak, a great specialist in the life and work of the writer, took up. She wrote a fundamental comment and the introductory article, and now we finally have a separate publication of the most valuable document from which we can draw a lot of useful information about late white