*This episode is in Russian.*

Sergey Gandlevsky is widely considered to be one of the most influential and eminent Russian poets of the twentieth and twenty-first century. A graduate of Moscow State University, Gandlevsky was a member of the 1970s group of poets “Moscow Time.” He began publishing his poems in the 1980s and today is one of the most published Russian poets in the world. He has received numerous Russian and international literary awards, including the anti-Booker Prize in 1996. He has released several books including a bilingual edition of his poems, A Kindred Orphanhood.