Silver Age. Poems

The Silver Age... A remarkable period in the history of Russian culture, beginning in the late 19th century and interrupted by the October Revolution. It was a time of intellectual insights and social upheaval, resonating widely in art and literature. Along with masterpieces by Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Yesenin and Marina Tsvetaeva, the reader will find poems by dozens of other masters of poetry—from the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov to the eccentric and ego-futurist Konstantin Olimpov. Before you is a kind of lyrical diary of an era that, in the words of Nikolai Otsup, "in its power and energy, as well as in the abundance of astonishing creations, has almost no parallel in the West: it is as if these phenomena, compressed into three decades, occupied, for example, in France, the entire nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." The publication includes a detailed preface by critic and literary historian Valery Shubinsky.