The romantic image of Venice, the city of dreams, dreams and memories is one of the key in Russian and world culture. It was composed of pictorial, musical and verse reflections. For Russian poetry, it is also the southern “double” of St. Petersburg. Venice in Russian Poetry . 1888-1872" - the first experience of a consolidated anthology of Russian poems dedicated to this city Texts by A. by A. Block, N. Gumilyova, N. Zabolotsky, M. Kuzmina, O. Mandelstam, B. Pasternak, W. Khodasevich and many others coexist here with the works of less famous, if not completely unknown poets, whose rhymed Venetian impressions remained to this day not taken into account either the bibliography or the history of literature. The poems are accompanied by detailed commentary and detailed biographical information about the authors . The book is preceded by an essay on the poetic development of Venice and a phased description of the practical side of Italian travel of the twentieth century.