This chapter begins with an epigraph from a poem by Vladimir Solov'ëv, arguably the figure most influential for the modernist thinkers in Russia's pre-revolutionary period. An essay by symbolist writer and friend of Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, called "The Apocalypse in Russian Poetry" that begins, like Blok's "The Scythians", with an epigraph from "Panmongolism". Belyi's novel Petersburg is replete with apocalyptic imagery. Indeed, eschatological thinking was everywhere among the creative intelligentsia. In the "The Coming Huns", the symbolist poet Valerii Briusov refers not to the thirteenth-century Mongol invasion that Solov'ëv evokes, but to the Huns, the Eurasian tribes which moved from Central Asia to Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries. Solov'ëv's Silver Age heirs inherited a hope for active integration, but succumbed more and more to the despair of disintegration, the dangers of exclusive nationalism, and obsession with the end of time.