Lyric of the Silver Age

The Silver Age... An amazing period in the history of domestic culture, which began in the late 19th century and was interrupted by the October Revolution. It was a time of intellectual enlightenment and social upheavals that received a wide response in art and literature. Alongside the masterpieces of Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Yesenin and Marina Tsvetaeva, the reader will find in the collection poems by dozens of other masters of verse — from the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov to the eccentric and ego-futurist Konstantin Olympov. Before you is a kind of lyrical diary of an era that, in the words of Nikolai Otsup, "in terms of strength and energy, as well as in the abundance of astonishing creations, has almost no analogy in the West: it is as if compressed into three decades phenomena that occupied, for example, in France the entire nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century."