Russian philology
The members of the
Lianosovo group of poets, notably Genrikh Sapgir, Igor Kholin and Vsevolod Nekrasov, who
previously chose to refrain from publication in Soviet periodicals, became very influential,
especially in Moscow, and the same goes for another masterful experimental poet, Gennady
Aigi. Also popular were poets following some other poetic trends, e.g. Vladimir Aristov and
Ivan Zhdanov from Poetry Club and Konstantin Kedrov and Elena Katsuba from DOOS, who
all used complex metaphors which they called meta-metaphors. In St. Petersburg, members of
New Leningrad Poetry School that included not only the famous Joseph Brodsky but also
Victor Krivulin, Sergey Stratanovsky and Elena Shvarts, were prominent first in the Soviet-
times underground - and later in mainstream poetry.
Some other poets, e.g. Sergey Gandlevsky and Dmitry Vodennikov, gained popularity by