Russian philology
Balmont, Mikhail Kuzmin, Igor Severyanin, Sasha Chorny, Nikolay Gumilyov, Maximilian
Voloshin, Innokenty Annensky, Zinaida Gippius. The poets most often associated with the
"Silver Age" are Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak.
While the Silver Age is considered to be the development of the 19th-century Russian
literature tradition, some avant-garde poets tried to overturn it: Velimir Khlebnikov, David
Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Though the Silver Age is famous mostly for its poetry, it produced some first-rate novelists
and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid
Andreyev, Fedor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and
Andrei Bely, though most of them wrote poetry as well as prose.
With the victory of Russia's Revolution, Mayakovsky worked on interpreting the facts of the
new reality
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