 It began the careers of several major poets such as Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, and Marina Tsvetaeva.Bely's novel "Petersburg" (1912) is considered the greatest example of Russian symbolist prose.Primary influences on the style of Russian Symbolism were the irrationalistic and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Solovyov, the novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the operas of Richard Wagner, the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, French symbolist and decadent poets (such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire), and the dramas of Henrik Ibsen.