It would take years to identify all the references in this masterpiece. Here is compilation of information we collected from various sources (namely the Jan Vonhellemont Annotations and the Middlebury Annotations), but remember that there are always more references!
Perhaps based off of Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin, a Russian poet and musician. Prominent contributor to the “Silver Age” of Russian poetry, referring to a peak in literary creativity and symbolism.
