The Golden Age of Russian Poetry

«The Golden Age of Russian Poetry» began with the lines of young Pushkin (1815) and ended with the last poems of Nekrasov (1878). This era gifted us dozens of wonderful masters of poetic word: from the «poets of the Pushkin era» — Zhukovsky, Boratynsky, Batyskov, and Yazykov, Pushkin's classmates Delvig and Kyukhelbeker, the Decembrists Ryleev and Odoevsky — to Fet, Tyutchev, Lermontov, Koltsov, and A. K. Tolstoy. Our anthology features the best works of twenty-one poets, revealing all facets of the Golden Age — landscape lyrics and civic odes, philosophical stanzas and tender love poems. Many of these verses have become popular songs and romances. The book is accompanied by a magnificent illustrative series — masterpieces of Russian classical painting — and will make the best gift for both adult readers and schoolchildren discovering the beauty and greatness of Russian poetry.