부산대학교 도서관

For Russians, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says, “Poetry is born from the torment of the soul.” Russia is a vast land, bordered on the north and south by the Baltic and the Black Seas, on the west by the Carpathian Mountains, and on the east by the mighty Volga River. In the thousand-year history of Russian literature, no natural barrier has preserved the Russian people from the agony of invasion, and Russian poetry has become unbreakably forged to their historical suffering.