Yuly Aykhenvald

Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov called Aykhenvald "a Russian version of Walter Pater".

[1] Aykhenvald was born in Balta, Russian Empire into a rabbi's family and attended the New Russia University in Odessa, where he developed a lasting interest in Schopenhauer's ideas.

After moving to Moscow in 1895, he employed a number of pen-names, including Yu.

Aykhenvald followed Schopenhauer in that art is irrational and that the essence of it can be reached only by dint of intuition.

Following the Russian Revolution, and the publication of his essay 'Revolution: the leaders and the led' (Revoljucija: ee vozhdi i vedomye'), where he attacked Leon Trotsky personally, Aykhenvald was briefly arrested and then, in 1922, exiled to Germany[2] where he involved himself in several high-profile émigré publications, including the newspaper Rulj.