Igor Severyanin

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Igor Severyanin
St. Petersburg, the Russian Empire - Tallinn, Estonian SSR

Igor Severyanin (real name: Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev) was born on May 4, 1887, in St. Petersburg, the Russian Empire, and died on December 20, 1941, in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR). Igor Severyanin was a Russian poet of the “Silver Age” and a translator from Estonian and French. He was one of the most prominent representatives of Russian futurism. he was the first Russian poet to use the word “futurist” as well as the founder of the egofuturist movement.

Bookshelf
by Boris Kokotov

This collection includes poems written in 2020-2023.  (Russian edition)

by Marina Eskin (Eskina)

“The Lingering Twilight” (“Сумерки”) is Marina Eskin’s fifth book of poems. (Russian edition)

by Ilya Perelmuter (editor)

Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.

by Nina Kossman

A collection of moving, often funny vignettes about a childhood spent in the Soviet Union.

“Vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.” —Booklist
“This unique book will serve to promote discussions of freedom.” —School Library Journal

by Maria Galina

A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.

by Ian Probstein

A new collection of poems by Ian Probstein. (In Russian)

Videos
Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman
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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday
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