Venice in Russian poetry: the experience of anthology 1888–1972

The romantic image of Venice, the city of dreams, dreams and memories? - one of the key in Russian and world culture. He was composed of picturesque, musical and poetic reflections. For Russian poetry?-? This is also the southern double of St. Petersburg. The book Venice in Russian poetry. 1888–1972 ? -? The first experience of the consolidated anthology of Russian poems dedicated to this city. The textbook texts of A. Akhmatova, A. Blok, N. Gumilyov, N. Zabolotsky, M. Kuzmin, O. Mandelstam, B. Pasternak, V. Khodasevich and many others are adjacent to the works of less glorified, and even completely unknown poets, Whose rhymed Venetian impressions have remained to today not taken into account either the bibliography or the history of literature. Poems are accompanied by detailed commentary and circumstances of biographical certificates of authors. The book is preceded by an outline of the poetic development of Venice and a phased description of the practical side of the Italian travels of the twentieth century