All biographies are edited extracts from:

Handbook of Russian Literature, YUP, New Haven & London,1985.

Editor: Victor Terras
ISBN: 0-300-03155-6

Poet Pages Author
Anna Akhmatova 14-16 Sonia Ketchian (Smith College)
Alexander Blok 54-57 Tomas Venclova (Yale)
Osip Mandelshtam 271-213 Jane Harris (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Vladimir Mayakovsky 277-278 Edward J Brown (Stanford)
Boris Pasternak 331-333 Christopher Barnes (St Andrews)
Marina Tsvetaeva 485-487 Janet M King (Cambridge, Mass)