Innokenty Annensky is the most significant, but also the most touching poet at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. “He walked along so many roads at the same time! He carried so much new in himself that all innovators turned out to be akin to him...” Anna Akhmatova said about him. This book is intended for those who want to truly feel the Russian “Silver Age”, who want to walk with the “king of the gloomy valley” along the roads and paths of poetry - from the “tavern of life” to the ascent above the worlds.