"Wet Lilacs Bloom". The Best Love Poems of Silver Age Poets

The poets of the Silver Age often referred to themselves as the "last constellation". Each of them lived with the feeling that after their creativity and at the end of their lives – nothing would remain: neither poetry of stunning power and richness, nor such bold, sometimes beyond the limits, feelings. Perhaps that is why each of them experienced, suffered, and wrote – as if giving all their sensations – until the end. And behind such an ability to express oneself entirely in poetry often stood amazing, sometimes incredible stories of life and love. It is said that time and love are what is lived every minute and then handed over – to eternity, and thus – to the future. The poems presented to you are a small part of the vast legacy of the Silver Age. Just listen to these words about love. It seems that the whole century that divides us – didn’t exist at all! The collection includes the best love poems of Innokenty Annensky, Anna Akhmatova, Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Bely, Alexander Blok, Valery Bryusov, Ivan Bunin, Zinaida Gippius, Nikolai Gumilev, Sergei Esenin, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Igor Severyanin, and Marina Tsvetaeva. The design of this book and the entire series "Poems on Wallpaper. Silver Age" is an homage to the publication "The Judge's Garden". In 1910, in St. Petersburg, futurist poets printed a circulation on the backside of wallpaper.