Poems of the Silver Age for Children

You have before you a collection of poetry from the Silver Age, compiled especially for young readers. Thanks to this book, long before school literature lessons, our children will be able to discover the wonderful world of remarkable poems by Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexander Blok and Osip Mandelstam, Nikolai Gumilev and Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergey Yesenin and Valery Bryusov, and many other renowned poets of the Silver Age. It will be an amazing journey into the world of classical, pure, and rich Russian language – and at the same time an introduction to the diversity of genres in Russian poetry: from poetic descriptions of the beauty of Russian nature to touching poems about friendship, love, and the most vivid episodes of our history. The book features about 200 poems by 17 great Russian poets of the Silver Age. To further reveal the charm of these poems, we have provided explanations, informative inserts, and, of course, interesting facts about the poets' lives. Our young readers will not only be helped to understand but also to see the beauty of this unique poetic universe through the works of famous Russian artists of the Silver Age – L. Bakst, V. Vasnetsov, K. Korovin, K. Somov, M. Churlyenis, and others.