From the time of Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry with a fullness and intensity not observed elsewhere. This collection of poems, covering two centuries, includes works by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Annensky, Mayakovsky, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak,...