M. A. Kuzmin 54 min read

The wondrous deeds of Alexander the Great, retold as luminous legend, his conquests, his marvels, and his passage into myth, in the stylized voice of a Russian Symbolist master.

Mikhail Kuzmin's 1909 work (in German, 'Taten des großen Alexander') is a jewel-like fantasy reimagining of the Alexander romance. Ornate, poetic, dreamlike. Read it for a Silver Age Russian writer's shimmering, myth-drenched retelling of the world-conqueror's life, where history dissolves into legend and wonder.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

54 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).