Drunkards and harlots
How the poets of the Silver Age lived, loved and died
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Alexander Blok strolls through the outskirts of St. Petersburg, drinking wine. Andrei Bely tries to steal Blok's wife. Mikhail Kuzmin suffers from love affairs and poverty. Nikolai Gumilyov goes to Africa to search for a golden door to other worlds. Marina Tsvetaeva studies at the gymnasium and shaves her head. This is the Silver Age, a time of great poetry and incredible stories: sometimes completely idiotic, sometimes tragic, and often both. Maxim Zhegalin's "Drinkers and Harlots" is a documentary novel and a detailed portrait of an entire era: from 1905 to 1921.
