Bookshelf: History of Russian Poetry

This edition includes articles written by the authors of the Bookshelf project for the comprehensive course History of Russian Poetry, which covers the period from Ancient Russia to the present day.
Alexander Arkhangelsky, Alina Bodrova, Alexander Dolinin, Dina Magomedova, Lev Oborin, and Valery Shubinsky discuss the origins and development of Russian poetry: How did the poetry of Ancient Russia evolve into Russian poetry? Where did Romanticism come from? What was the contribution of Lomonosov, Pushkin, Nekrasov, Blok, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Brodsky and Prigov? How can the poetic explosion of the Silver Age be explained? How did official and unofficial poetry coexist in Soviet times? What happened in Russian poetry in the post-Soviet decades?

A team of authors (compiled by Lev Oborin). Bookshelf: History of Russian Poetry. — Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2025.