Poems written on the 100 anniversary of Marina Tsvetaeva.

A collection of poems.

'A poet in Russia is more than a poet' - these winged lines from the poem 'Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station' by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko, the famous poet of the 'sixties', could become an epigraph to his work. A rebel, a dreamer, an orator and a tribune, he praised the poetry that rushed 'into the attack of the streets', and was one of those whose creativity was a breath of...

This edition includes the most famous poems and poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, an outstanding poet of the twentieth century, one of the leaders of the Russian avant-garde. M. Tsvetaeva called him 'the world's first poet of the masses ... the first Russian poet-orator.' Mayakovsky, who 'equated a feather to a bayonet', became the true voice of the revolution and a symbol of the Soviet era. But in...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko tells about the history of the creation of the Thirteenth Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich, which rightfully belongs to the great works of the 20th century, as well as the history of his poem 'Babi Yar', published in 'Literaturnaya Gazeta' in 1961 and immediately became an event. Shostakovich's music and Yevtushenko's poems told about the tragedy that happened in 1941 and...

Shakespeare's sonnets are the highest standard of 'high poetry'. Literary historians have been arguing about them for several centuries now, trying to solve the mystery of the mysterious 'dark lady' and the young friend of the great poet, to whom they are dedicated. Many books, scientific and artistic, have been written about the possible history of the creation of sonnets, and several films...

Diary of Volodymyr Vakulenko-K. — painful and true records that the writer kept from the beginning of the full-scale invasion and during the occupation of Izyum and his native village of Kapitolivka in Kharkiv Oblast. Until the abduction by the Rashists, the inevitability of which he was aware of, as well as the fact that he had little chance of survival - because he is Ukrainian, because he...

Serhii Zhadan's book colorfully describes the ‘carnival’ period of the early nineties. People who tried to survive in that period, earning money in any way, were witnesses of the construction of a new democratic society. And their desire to work at least as a trader in the market began to gradually grow into ideas of private entrepreneurship and big business. From mud to princes - the principle...

The first poetry collection of the Ukrainian writer, documentarian and war crimes documenter Victoria Amelina. Victoria began to write poems from this book at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia on the territory of Ukraine, and the last one was written a few days before her death from a missile attack on Kramatorsk on June 27, 2023. What you will feel when you read these poems...

The poems in this collection were written before the start of a full-scale invasion, but the war is present there - in silence, fear, a life not lived. The other, with other experiences of resettlement and losses that could not be talked about, that wanted to be erased from memory, but they did not disappear anywhere, worked with their carriers until old age. And she was already opening her...

The poems of this poetry collection were written at the front, but they are not about the war. They are about people who love more than they fear. Who were here and did not leave here. Soldiers remember their loved ones in this language, and children write letters on pages of school notebooks. It speaks of pain and hope. They say goodbye and love.