At the period of the nineteenth century, a considerable part of the Russian intelligentsia became acquainted with the works and meditations of Friedrich Nietzsche, which for many of them was the pair a source of inspiration and a challenge to further reflection. single of these young intellectuals was Viacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866-1949) who was to become a major author of poems and leading theoretician of the Russian symbolist motion (1) In 1886, Ivanov left Moscow and went to Berlin to inquiry classical philology and history. During his stay in the German capital, he took part in Theodore Mommsen's