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

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Alexander Blok walks around the outskirts of St. Petersburg and drinks wine. Andrei Bely tries to steal Blok's wife. Mikhail Kuzmin suffers from love affairs and lack of money. Nikolai Gumilev goes to Africa to look for a golden door to other worlds. Marina Tsvetaeva studies at a gymnasium and shaves her head. Decadents, mystics and philosophers write poetry, quarrel, fall in love and hold spiritualistic sessions while the clouds gather and the world gradually goes mad.

This is the Silver Age, a time of great poetry and incredible stories: sometimes completely idiotic, sometimes tragic, and often both. "Drinkers and Harlots" by Maxim Zhegalin is a documentary novel and a detailed portrait of an entire era: from 1905 to 1921. A portrait congenial to it, full of joy, sadness and admiration for life.
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