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unusual facts about Russian poetry



Lyn Hejinian

She has published over a dozen books of poetry and numerous books of essays as well as two volumes of translations from the Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko.


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Avdotia Istomina

Her dancing is the subject of a brilliant stanza in Eugene Onegin, which was described by Vladimir Nabokov as the most mellifluous lines in the whole of Russian poetry.

Vilenkin

Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin better known as Nikolai Minsky, a mystical writer and poet of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

Vladislav Khodasevich

The former contained the most important rendition of Orpheus theme in the Russian poetry, the esoteric Ballad.