Revelers and Harlots: How the Poets of the Silver Age Lived, Loved and Died

12 hrs. 32 min.

Language Russian

Author Zhegalin Maxim

Narrator Zhegalin Maxim

Description

Alexander Blok walks around the outskirts of St. Petersburg and drinks wine. Andrei Bely tries to steal Blok’s wife away. Mikhail Kuzmin suffers from love affairs and poverty. Nikolai Gumilyov goes to Africa—searching for a golden door to other worlds. Marina Tsvetaeva studies at a gymnasium and shaves her head. Decadents, mystics, and philosophers write poems, argue, fall in love, and hold séances while the clouds thicken, and the world gradually goes mad. It’s the Silver Age—an era of great poetry and incredible stories: sometimes completely idiotic, sometimes tragic, and often both at once. “Brazhniks and Prostitutes” by Maxim Zhegalin is a documentary novel and a detailed portrait of an entire epoch: from 1905 to 1921. A portrait akin to it—full of fun, sorrow, and admiration for life.

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