Silver Age. Poems

The Silver Age... An amazing period in the history of Russian culture, which began at the end of the 19th century and was interrupted by the October Revolution. It was a time of intellectual revelations and social upheavals that resonated widely in art and literature. Alongside masterpieces by Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, Sergey Yesenin and Marina Tsvetaeva, the reader will find poems by dozens of other masters of verse - from the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov to the eccentric and ego-futurist Konstantin Olymov. Before you is a kind of lyrical diary of an era that, in the words of Nikolai Otsup, "in terms of strength and energy, as well as the abundance of amazing creations, has almost no analogy in the West: it is as if compressed into three decades phenomena that, for example, occupied all of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century in France." The edition is accompanied by a detailed preface by the critic and literary historian Valery Shubinsky.