In Boundlessness

In Boundlessness (Russian: В безбрежности, romanized: V bezbrezhnosti) is a second major poetry collection by Konstantin Balmont, first published in 1895 in Moscow.

Following Under the Northern Sky, it features 95 poems, some of which bear first signs of the author's experiments with the Russian language's musical and rhythmical structures he would later become famous for.

Balmont read Crime and Punishment at sixteen, and The Brothers Karamazov a year later.

[2][3] The initial reviews by mainstream critics were lukewarm, but the Symbolist faction of the Russian artistic community embraced the book as an innovative work.

In retrospect it is regarded as an important artistic statement that in many ways shaped the face of Russian literary modernism.