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Russian Poetry
Major representatives in chronological order.
The Forefathers
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)
Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816)
Golden Age
Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873)
Afanasy Fet (1812-1892)
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841)
Nikolay Nekrasov (1821-1878)
Silver Age
Alexander Blok (1880-1921)
Nikolay Gumilyov (1886-1921)
Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925)
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
Contemporary Poets
Vladimir Vysotsky (1938-1980)