Portraits of Russian poets

In the book of Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg-the famous Russian prose writer, poet, publicist, journalist, translator and public figure of the twentieth century-presented the cycle of literary and biographical essays “Portraits of Russian Poets”, first published in Berlin in 1922. Dedicated to the work of Akhmatova, Balmont, Blok, Andrei Bely, Bryusov, Yesenin, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva and other largest Russian poets of the Silver Age-contemporaries of the author, and already becoming the master, and only included in the literature, these portrait-critical sketches are invariably painted personal With feeling, imbued with admiration for genuine lyrical talent, sensitivity to the word and vigilance of artistic vision. The book also includes other essays, articles, reviews and performances by Ehrenburg about Russian literature of his time