TRANSLATIONS BY SILVER AGE RUSSIAN POETS AS A SUBJECT OF STUDY IN HISTORY OF TRANSLATION COURSE
The article explores the role of translation in the creative work of representatives of Russian Literature Silver Age. Concentrating mainly on the poets-translators who made Russian poetry famous worldwide, the author analyses the background of the general way of thinking and creative work of the Russian intelligentsia at the turn of the 20th century. Translations made by Silver Age poets are of interest to the author from the teaching point of view in the context of the History of Translation course. The key objective of the article is to show that the specifics of literary translation of that period in Russian culture had been predetermined. The dominant figure in the article is Innokrentiy F. Annensky who embodied typical characteristics of the time in his translations.