This publication includes articles written and collected as part of the 'Polka' project, part of a larger course, 'The History of Russian Poetry,' which covers a broad period—from Ancient Rus' to the present day. Poets and philologists Alexander Arkhangelsky, Lev Oborin, Valery Shubinsky, Alexander Dolinin, Dina Magomedova, and Alina Bodrova discuss the origins and development of Russian poetry: how did Old Russian poetry become Russian? Where did Romanticism come from? What were the achievements of Lomonosov, Pushkin, Nekrasov, Blok, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Brodsky, and Prigov? What explains the poetic explosion of the Silver Age? How did official and unofficial poetry coexist in Soviet times? What was happening in Russian poetry during the émigré and post-Soviet decades?