Abstract
"Urbi et Orbi," that is, "To the City and the World," is the title Valerii Briusov gave to one of his best verse collections. The city and the world—it's no accident that these two words appear side by side. It is not only that they are euphonious in Latin; they also share a profound kinship in meaning. The city bears within itself, it would seem, all the variety of the world and at the same time serves as one of the most capacious symbols of that variety. The brilliant pages of Russian literature testify to this. The city appears now in a festive guise, full of abundant vitality, now as a phantom, a deceptive but endlessly multifaceted force that glorifies and at the same time somehow oppresses mankind.
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