Poems on the Web
Bilingual
- From the Ends to the Beginning: a Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse:
Texts of Russian originals and English translations of 200 poems that broadly represent more than 225 years of Russian poetry.
38 detailed resource pages on the various poets containing extensive biographical information, bibliographies, and links. For many of these poets, russianpoetry.net is the only English-language source of information on the Internet.
75+ previously unavailable archival recordings of poetry performed by Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Esenin, Bunin, and others. When recordings by the poets themselves are not available, the site contains performances by leading Russian actors or musical renditions of the works.
400+ illustrations of authors, monuments, and manuscript versions of many poems.
In Russian
- 100 luchshikh stikhotvoreniiPoems, majority Russian but also some non-Russian, are presented in rankings according to readers' voting.
- Antologiia russkoi poeziiAn extensive collection and 19th- and 20th-century Russian poetry.
- Mir Mariny Tsvetaevoi: Kul'turnoe nasledie Serebrianogo vekaCovers Tsvetaeva and the Silver Age together, with an extensive amount of primary works and some secondary sources.
- Nikolai Gumilev: Elektronnoe sobranie sochineniiSince 1997. An extensive multimedia collection of works by and about Gumilev organized by genres, authorship, and formats.
- Russkie pisateli i poetyCombines original literary texts with biographical and literary studies materials.
- Serebrianyi vekA collection of published poetry collections of a few Silver Age poets such as Tsvetaeva, Annenskii, Belyi.
- Serebrianyi vek siluetAn interesting website with a wealth of original works of arts and literature from the Silver Age. Authorship unknown, but created with a certain style and taste.
- Slova: Serebrianyi vekQuite extensive collection of Silver-Age poetry arranged by poets.
- Zhivye golosaSound recordings of Akhmatova, Mandel'shtam, Pasternak, and Brodskii.
In English
- An introduction to the Silver Age of Russian poetryA select poems of the Silver Age, all translated into English, some by the author
- Clear voicesA. S. Kline's translations of Russian poetry.
- LitFinder
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International in scope and partially full-text. A comprehensive tool for locating individual poems including many by Russian poets.
- Poetry in translationCross-national collection of poetry in English translation by A. S. Kline. The Russian section includes Akhmatova, Mandel’shtam, Pushkin, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva.
- Poetry lovers' pageCollection of English/American poets and Russian poets, all translated into English.
Sound recordings
- Listening galeryA section in the website “From the ends to the beginning.”
- Muzyka na stikhiSongs based on the poems of Gumilev in the website “Nikolai Gumilev: Elektronnoe sobranie sochinenii.”
- Nikolai Gumilev: elektronnoe sobranie sochineniiA section in the website "Nikolai Gumilev: Elektronnoe sobranie sochinenii.”
- Zhivye golosaSound recordings of Akhmatova, Mandel'shtam, Pasternak, and Brodskii.
Contemporary Russian poetry
- Poeziia.ruSimilar to stikhi.ru, it is a platform for publishing poets.
- Stikhi.ruComprehensive website of contemporary Russian poets.