Vladimir Piast’s Chronology and the Original Meaning of the Term “Silver Age of Russian Poetry”

In his apology of the silver-age type of creativity, N.Otsup (1933: 176) claimed, as we have seen, that the silver age means desperately hard work, not exquisite workmanship, as some aesthetes might believe (the undisclosed but easily identifiable target of his challenge was certainly Bunin and Bunin’s admirers).