Since the late Soviet period and especially since the collapse of the USSR, Vasilii Rozanov has been one of the most popular and influential thinkers of the religious-philosophical movement of the early twentieth century. His playful and artful texts, at once pungent and profoundly self-conscious, have provided an example of Russian postmodernism avant là lettre. He has had a noticeable impact on recent Russian literature (most notably Andrei Siniavskii [aka Abram Terts], Venedikt Erofeev, and Viktor Erofeev) and philosophy (Vladimir Bibikhin). A collection of Rozanov's works, numbering eighteen volumes by the end of 2004, includes many of his published books, scores of uncollected essays, and a wealth of previously unpublished material, including several volumes in the genre of "fallen leaves" (Sakharna, 1913; Mimoletnoe [Transitory things], 1914 and 1915; Poslednie list'ia [Final leaves], 1916 and 1917) and the greater part of texts written for Apokalipsis...