Poems of the Silver Age Poets for Children

Before you is a collection of poetry from the Silver Age, specifically compiled 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 celebrated poets of the Silver Age.
This will be an amazing journey into the world of classical, pure, and rich Russian language — as well as an introduction to the variety of genres in Russian poetry: from poetic descriptions of the beauty of Russian nature to stirring 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 understand but also 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. Churlenis, and others.