Apollon (magazine)


Apollon was a Russian literary magazine that served as a principal publication of the Russian modernist movement in the early 20th century. It was established in 1909 and soon became a venue for the polemics that marked the decline of the symbolist movement in Russian poetry. In 1910, two seminal essays that appeared in Apollon -- Mikhail Kuzmin's On Beautiful Clarity and Nikolai Gumilyov's The Life of Verse -- heralded the emergence of Acmeist poetry. The magazine ceased publication in 1917.