Stars Shine Over the Moscow River. Moscow in Russian Poetry

The multifaceted, constantly changing, and alive word – poetry. It penetrates to the very essence of things and human souls, like an X-ray, and wraps it in words. The new series collects poetry that constitutes the cultural code of the Russian person – A. Pushkin, A. Akhmatova, A. Block, V. Mayakovsky, O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetaeva, B. Okudzhava, and other classics. Yet, the series is addressed to our contemporary, as it includes works by song poets: Spring Beyond the Zarечная Street, Silence Over the Rogozhskaya Zastava, and others, widely known to the older generation and worthy of being remembered and known by new generations.

The first two books in the series are chronicles of two of the most important cities in the history of Russia, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Famous houses, references to the streets and monuments of the cities are accompanied by detailed commentary.

Linear illustrations and watercolors to the poems are created by a young talented artist, a graduate of the Saint Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after A. L. Shchusev, a member of the Union of Artists, Viktor-André El-Safadi.