A poet who wrote in this language who died in 2010 is known for collections such as The Candle, The String, and Fever.
A poet who wrote in this language who died in 2010 is known for collections such as The Candle, The String, and Fever. A long poem in this language ends with the image of a Christ figure in a snowstorm, who leads the march of a group of soldiers. One poem in this language repeats the refrain "Snow is falling," while another says of the title figure that "his thick (*) fingers are bulky and fat like live-weights." The first twenty years of the 20th century are referred to as the Silver Age of poetry in this language, and were marked by the flourishing of schools such as Acmeism, whose most noted adherent published Requiem and Poem Without a Hero. For 10 points, name this language used to write the poetry of Bella Akhmadulina, Aleksandr Blok, Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova.
A poet who wrote in this language who died in 2010 is known for collections such as The Candle, The String, and Fever.
Russian [or russki]