Omry Ronen was trained as a philologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Harvard. He is considered the most discerning Western interpreter of twentieth-century Russian poetry –acknowledged in the standard editions of Russian masters of this century.

• Chapter 1 The Notion of the Russian Silver Age Today; Chapter 2 “The Parnassus of the Silver Age” or “The Second Russian Renaissance”? Sergei Makovskii and Nikolai Berdiaev; Chapter 3 The Silver of Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandel’shtam, and Gumilev; Chapter 4 “The Silver Age” of Numbers; Chapter 5 Vladimir Piast’s Chronology and the Original Meaning of the Term “Silver Age of Russian Poetry”; Chapter 6 The Detractors of Postsymbolism “Ippolit Udush’ev” and “Gleb Marev”; Chapter 7 The Adamantine Age, “The Golden Age in One’s Pocket,” and The Platinum Age;