The Golden Age of Russian Poetry

'The Golden Age of Russian poetry' began with the lines of a young Pushkin (1815) and ended with the last poems of Nekrasov (1878). This era gave us dozens of wonderful masters of poetic language: from the "poets of Pushkin's time" - Zhukovsky, Boratynsky, Batyushkov, and Yazikov, Pushkin's peers Delvig and Kyuhelbeker, the Decembrists Ryleev and Odoyevsky - to Fet, Tyutchev, Lermontov, Kol'tsov, and A. K. Tolstoy.
Our anthology presents the best works of twenty-one poets, revealing all the facets of the Golden Age - landscape lyrics and civic odes, philosophical stanzas, and tender love poems. Many of these poems have become popular songs and romances.
The book is accompanied by a magnificent illustrative series - masterpieces of Russian classical painting - and will be the best gift for both adult readers and schoolchildren discovering the beauty and grandeur of Russian poetry.