Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period of rich literary and theatrical experimentation. The first study of its kind; The Modernist Masquerade examines the cultural history of masquerades in Russia and their representations in influential literary works. The masquerades widespread appearance as a literary motif in works by such writers as Anna Akhmatova; Leonid Andreev; Andrei Bely; Aleksandr Blok; and Fyodor Sologub mirrored its popularity as a leisure-time activity and illuminated its integral role in the Russian modernist creative consciousness. Colleen McQuillen charts how the political; cultural; and personal significance of lavish costumes and other forms of self-stylizing evolved in Russia over time. She shows how their representations in literature engaged in dialog with the diverse aesthetic trends of Decadence; Symbolism; and Futurism and with the eras artistic philosophies.
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