Vavilon, or Babylon, began as a loose group of young poets brought together by Dmitry Kuzmin in 1988. In the post-Soviet years, the group's almanac, and then website, became a driving force behind some of the most innovative poetry of the 1990s.

A 1991 article on the affair between Russian modernist poets Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) and Sofia Parnok (1885-1933) in the LGBTQ magazine RISK.