Posted April 23, 2019
LootHunter: Most Americans don't know Russian poetry either way, so it doesn't matter if Pushkin is the greatest Russian poet.
Is that excluding Grebenshikov? ;) I mean, Dylan won a pulitzer despite and/or because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus
More seriously - I like Pushkin, but I probably prefer Lermontov. I bought an Akhmatova book once upon a time, but am somewhat chastened to admit I never finished it. I don't think my Russian even back then was quite good enough to really get her.