Table of Contents

Introduction / 7 A Note on the Translations / 9 Akhmatova on Blok / 14 Tsvetaeva on Blok / 16 Blok on Akhmatova / 18 Akhmatova on Pasternak / 20 Pasternak on Tsvetaeva / 22 Tsvetaeva on Akhmatova / 24 Akhmatova on Tsvetaeva / 28 Tsvetaeva on Pasternak / 30 Pasternak on Blok / 32 Vosnesensky on Akhmadulina / 34 Akhmadulina on Mandelstam / 38 Mandelstam on Akhmatova / 42 Akhmatova on Mandelstam / 44 Mandelstam on Tsvetaeva / 46 Tsvetaeva on Mandelstam / 48 Tsvetaeva on Mayakovsky / 50 Severyanin on Mayakovsky / 52 Severyanin on Pasternak / 54 Pasternak on Akhmatova / 56 Akhmatova on Annensky / 60 Akhmatova on Annensky / 62 Yevtushenko on Akhmatova / 64 Akhmatova on Mayakovsky / 72 Mayakovsky on Yesenin / 74 Severyanin on Yesenin / 86 Akhmadulina on Pasternak / 88 Pasternak on Tsvetaeva / 90 Tsvetaeva on Yesenin / 92 Akhmadulina on Akhmatova / 94 Akhmatova on Gumilev / 96 Gumilev on Annensky / 98 Severyanin on Gumilev / 102 Akhmatova on Yesenin / 104 Kushner on Akhmadulina / 106 Severyanin on Blok / 108 Yevtushenko on Blok / 110 Severyanin on Akhmatova / 112 Severyanin on Tsvetaeva / 114 Tarkovsky on Tsvetaeva / 116 Tarkovsky on Akhmatova / 118 Akhmadulina on Tsvetaeva / 120 Nabokov on Blok / 124 Yevtushenko on Mayakovsky / 126 Brodsky on Akhmatova / 128 Akhmatova on Blok, Mandelstam, and Tsvetaeva / 130 Reyn on Akhmadulina / 132 Biographical Notes / 134 Notes on the Poems / 140

About the Author

Peter Oram is known both as a translator, (from Russian and German) and as a poet, novelist and short story writer. He has had two novels published - 'Maddocks' (Gomer Press, 1998) and 'The Rub' (Starborn Books, 2001) - and a collection of poems, 'White' (Starborn Books, 2001), and his poems and short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. As well as being a writer, he is also a composer, and has written the music for two musicals as well as publishing several books of verse and music for educational use. Peter Oram was born in Cardiff, has lived in London, in Spain and, for many years in Pembrokeshire, but moved to Southern Germany in 2001.