/AJlthough a well-known Russian critic once observed that there is a "certain consonance" between Sologub and Annenskii, systematic research needs to be done before we can know the extent to which this observation is true. As a general subject of inquiry, "Sologub and Annenskii" can be divided into at least three distinct but closely related subtopics: the biographical relationship between the two poets and their assessment of each other; the mutual quotations, subtexts, and so on, that appear in their work; and the comparison of their artistic systems, which then allows for a more precise definition of each poet.2 This paper will compare the poetic systems of Sologub and Annenskii, a task made easier by the fact that both of them wrote dramas based on the same ancient myth: Annenskii's lyrical tragedy Laodamiia (Laodameia), written in 1902 and printed in 1906, and Sologub's Dar mudrykh pchel (The Gift of the Wise Bees), which was printed in 1907. It also will take up a broader theoretical issue extending beyond the comparison of Sologub and Annenskii: the interrelation between the personal and the cultural myth. In a work that inaugurated a new line of scholarly inquiry, Roman Jakobson took up the task of identifying and describing the personal myth that lies at the foundation of Pushkin's creativity and ultimately determined his poetics.3 Some have