Among Worlds, in the Flicker of Lights... Poetry of the Silver Age

The Silver Age... An astonishing period in the history of domestic culture, which began in the late 19th century and was interrupted by the October Revolution. It was a time of intellectual revelations and social upheavals that received a wide... response in art and literature. Alongside the masterpieces of Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Yesenin and Marina Tsvetaeva, the reader will find in this collection poems by dozens of other masters of verse - from the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov to the eccentric and ego-futurist Konstantin Olympov. Before you is a kind of lyrical diary of the era, which, in the words of Nikolai Otsup, "by strength and energy, as well as by the abundance of astonishing creations, has almost no analogy in the West: it is as if compressed into three decades phenomena that occupied, for example, all of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century in France".