English artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) is born in Brighton on 21 August 1872. His Russian admirer, modernist writer and poet Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936) is born on 18 October of the same year in Yaroslavl. Kuzmin’s oeuvre is saturated with allusions to Beardsley’s works.

Image: Photograph of Aubrey Beardsley by Frederick Hollyer, 1893. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright is expired.

Articles

Sasha Dovzhyk, "The Queer Little Grove: The Adoption of Aubrey Bearsley by Mikhail Kuzmin"