By analogy with Pushkin’s Golden Age, the era spanning the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries came to be known as the Silver Age; it was marked by the emergence of an unprecedented number of brilliant figures in Russian poetry—Balmont and Bryusov, Gippius and Merezhkovsky, Sologub and Annensky, Blok and Akhmatova, Gumilev and Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva and Pasternak, Yesenin and Mayakovsky, and dozens of others. Yet this era gave rise to more than just a multitude of poetic talents. The Silver Age was characterized by a distinctive romantic worldview and a remarkable atmosphere—a reflection of the spiritual upsurge and new currents that influenced not only Russian literature but also painting, philosophy, music, and theater.