Abstract
This article examines the influence on early Russian cinema of Symbolism and the cinematographic activities of the poet Aleksandr A. Kursinskii. Thus far, the assumption has been that Symbolists worked only sporadically in cinema, and that Kursinskii had written only one screenplay for a film that was actually produced, Beautiful Like Death (1914). But documents that previously had escaped the attention of film studies specialists reveal that there were in fact many films influenced by Symbolists—among them the canonical 1914 releases Anna Karenina and Nest of the Gentry. Kursinskii, moreover, worked for one of the most influential film studios of prerevolutionary Russia, Timan and Reingardt, which in the 1910s produced the outstanding “Russian Golden Series” of films. The cinematography of the Symbolist Kursinskii hugely influenced Russian cinema of the mid‐to‐late 1910s.
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