A generous selection of Russian poetry from medieval times down to the modern period.
Introduction
Note on Russian Versification
Acknowledgements
SLOVO O POLKU IGOREVE (c. 1185)
BYLINY
DUKHOVNYE STIKHI
MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV (1711-65)
ALEKSANDR SUMAROKOV (1718-77)
GAVRIIL DERZHAVIN (1743-1816)
IVAN KRYLOV (c. 1769-1844)
VASILY ZHUROVSKY (1783-1852)
KONSTANTIN BATYUSHKOV (1787-1855)
PRINCE PETR*VYAZEMSKY (1792-1878)
BARON ANTON DEL'VIG (1798-1831)
ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN (1799-1837)
EVGENY BARATYNSKY (1800-44)
NIKOLAY YAZYKOV (1803-46)
FEDOR TYUTCHEV (1803-73)
DMITRI VENEVITINOV (1805-27)
KAROLINA PAVLOVA (1807-93)
ALEKSEY KOL'TSOV (1809-42)
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV (1814-41)
COUNT ALEKSEY TOLSTOY (1817-75)
YAKOV POLONSKY (1819-98)
AFANASY FET (1820-92)
NIKOLAY NEKRASOV (1821-77)
APOLLON GRIGORIEV (1822-64)
KONSTANTIN SLUCHEVSKY (1837-1904)
VLADIMIR SOLOVIEW (1853-1900)
INNOKENTY ANNENSKY (1856-1909)
FEDOR SOLOGUB (1863-1927)
VYACHESLAV IVANOV (1866-1949)
KONSTANTIN BAL'MONT (1867-1943)
ZINAIDA GIPPIUS (1869-1945)
IVAN BUNIN (1870-1953)
VALERY BRYUSOV (1873-1924)
MIKHAIL KUZMIN (1875-1936)
MAKSIMILIAN VOLOSHIN (1877-1932)
ANDREY BELY (1880-1934)
ALEKSANDR BLOK (1880-1921)
VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV (1885-1922)
NIKOLAY GUMILEV (1886-1921)
VLADISLAV KHODASEVICH (1886-1939)
NIKOLAY KLYUEV (1887-1937)
ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966)
NIKOLAY ASEEV (1889-1963)
BORIS PASTERNAK (1890-1960)
OSIP MANDEL'SHTAM (1891-1938)
MARINA TSVETAEVA (1892-1941)
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY (1893-1930)
GEORGEY IVANOV (1894-1958)
SERGEY ESENIN (1895-1925)
EDUARD BAGRITSKY (1895-1934)
NIKOLAY TIKHONOV (1896- )
PAVEL ANTOKOL'SKY (1896- )
NIKOLAY ZABOLOTSKY (1903-58)
ALEKSANDR TVARDOVSKY (1910-71)
PAVEL VASILIEV (1910-37)
MARGARITA ALIGER (1915- )
VLADIMIR SOLOUKHIN (1924- )
EVGENY VINOKUROV (1925- )
EVGENY EVTUSHENKO (1933- )
ANDREY VOZNESENSKY (1933- )
BELLA AKHMADULINA (1937 - )
Index of Titles and First Lines
Index of Poets