Valery Bryusov (1873-1924) was a Russian poet, dramatist and historian. In 1917 he wrote a paper on Atlantis in which he reviewed all the theories of the day. He believed that Atlantis had flourished at the end of the last Ice Age. Bryusov speculated that Plato’s orichalcum was in fact aluminium-bronze, an unlikely possibility considering the high temperatures needed to produce such an alloy.He also expressed a very sceptical view of the occult theories relating to Atlantis.