Russian philology
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
writing in a retro style, which reflected the sliding of newly-written Russian poetry into being
consciously imitative of the patterns and forms developed as early as in the 19th century.
The 21th century
In the 21st century, a new generation of Russian authors appeared differing greatly from the
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