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The 27 pages that link to Russian poetry, each with the reason it gives.

• Vladimir MayakovskyNarrower topic: Mayakovsky transformed a literary tradition already shaped by figures such as Pushkin and Nekrasov.

• Russian FuturismNarrower topic: Futurist poets challenged the conventions and vocabulary of Russian literary culture.

• Osip MandelstamNarrower topic: His work belongs to a literary tradition whose language and institutions shaped his career.

• Boris PasternakNarrower topic: Pasternak first established his reputation as a poet.

• Doctor ZhivagoNarrower topic: Zhivago’s poems and Pasternak’s lyrical prose connect the story to this tradition.

• Joseph BrodskyNarrower topic: Brodsky’s Russian-language poems draw on this tradition’s meters and canonical voices.

• Valery BryusovNarrower topic: Bryusov renewed Russian poetic forms while drawing on their classical inheritance.

• Zinaida GippiusNarrower topic: Her poems made her one of the distinctive voices of Russian Symbolism.

• Marina TsvetaevaNarrower topic: Tsvetaeva transformed Russian poetic language while drawing on its established traditions.

• Vasily ZhukovskyNarrower topic: Zhukovsky’s innovations altered the language and conventions of this literary tradition.

• Ivan BuninNarrower topic: Bunin began as a poet and retained a poet’s attention to sound and imagery.

• Konstantin BalmontNarrower topic: Balmont’s innovations belong to a national poetic tradition he both inherited and altered.

• Mikhail KuzminNarrower topic: Kuzmin’s lyrics influenced poets who sought precision, musicality, and classical composure.

• Sergei YeseninNarrower topic: His distinctive rural lyricism became one strand of Russian poetry's twentieth-century inheritance.

• Bulat OkudzhavaNarrower topic: Okudzhava’s songs retain the compression, rhythm, and imagery of lyric poetry.

• Fyodor TyutchevNarrower topic: Tyutchev’s verse belongs to the tradition transformed by Russia’s nineteenth-century poets.

• ImaginismNarrower topic: Imaginism emerged within Russian poetry during its early twentieth-century avant-garde.

• Olga BerggoltsNarrower topic: Berggolts’s verse belongs to this literary tradition.

• Acmeist poetryNarrower topic: Acmeism arose within, and altered, the course of modern Russian poetry.

• Afanasy FetNarrower topic: Fet’s work occupies a distinctive place between Romantic lyricism and modernist experimentation.

• Dmitri PrigovNarrower topic: Prigov’s writing revises the conventions and public authority of Russian poetic tradition.

• Igor SeveryaninNarrower topic: His work belongs to a tradition transformed by modernist experiment.

• Innokenty AnnenskyNarrower topic: Annensky’s work occupies a distinctive place between the nineteenth-century lyric tradition and modernism.

• Sasha ChornyNarrower topic: Its forms and conventions provide the setting for Chorny’s verse.

• Yanka DyagilevaNarrower topic: Her songs rely on poetic compression, image, and sound as much as on conventional narrative.

• Yevgeny BaratynskyNarrower topic: His verse helped establish the intellectual range and formal possibilities of nineteenth-century Russian poetry.