Russian author and poet Andrei Bely with symbolist authors, 1907. Andrei Bely was the pen name adopted by Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880-1934), who was a member of the Symbolist movement in Russian literature. Vladimir Nabokov regarded Bely's 'Petersburg' (1913) as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk.