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The Silver Age of Russian Poetry refers to the last decade of the 19th century and the first two or three decades of the 20th century in Russia. It was an exceptionally creative period in Russian poetry, ranked by scholars alongside the Golden Age of a century earlier. The dominant movements were Russian Symbolism, Acmeism, and Russian Futurism.
The term Silver Age was first suggested by philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev. It did not become the standard way to describe this literary era until the 1960s, long after the age itself had ended.
Alexander Blok emerged as the leading poet of the Silver Age, respected by virtually everyone. Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Osip Mandelshtam also launched their careers during this period, with each going on to span many decades. Ivan Bunin and Marina Tsvetayeva were also significant figures who refused to align with any single movement.
The Silver Age ended after the Russian Civil War. Alexander Blok's death and Nikolai Gumilev's execution in 1921, along with the publication of Pasternak's collection "My Sister is Life" in 1922, marked the close of the era.
Female poets and writers influenced the Silver Age considerably, in sharp contrast to the Golden Age a century earlier. The Silver Age is considered the beginning of the formal academic and social acceptance of women writers into the Russian literary sphere.
Émigré poets looked back nostalgically on the Silver Age from abroad. Georgy Ivanov settled in Paris and Vladislav Khodasevich in Berlin, and both led the community of exiled poets who kept the memory of the era alive outside Russia.