Silver Age. Selected Lyrics with Illustrations

The Silver Age of Russian poetry is a period of new trends, a new view of human life and the history of the country, a time of searching for different forms of artistic representation of the world. This collection includes... works by outstanding poets of the Silver Age, poems that have become iconic for their creativity and laid the foundation for new literary movements. The verses of representatives of Russian Symbolism K. Balmont and A. Blok, the passages of Acmeists N. Gumilyov and O. Mandelstam, and the bright rhymes of Futurists I. Severyanin and V. Mayakovsky form an integral part of Russian poetry, a rich heritage of their time. The poetic lines, intertwined with biographical sketches, create vivid images, the lines of destinies come together to form a picture of an entire era.