Leonid Andreyev: Duke Lorenzo

Pavel Basinsky – a two-time winner of the “Big Book” award, author of bestsellers about Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky. Leonid Andreyev – one of the brightest and most mysterious writers of the Silver Age, the creator of the unique “Andreyev” style in literature and theater. He was called a realist, a symbolist, a mystical anarchist, but a precise definition could never be found. A native of Oryol, he reached the heights of literary fame and found himself in exile after the October Revolution. He was friends with Maxim Gorky and became his enemy for many years. A handsome man and a dreamer, a “duke” by nature and a hereditary drunkard, he was loved by many women, but was happy only with one.