The collection includes the best poems of the famous Russian poet - Arseniy Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky (1907–1989). Tarkovsky A. A. took a special place in Russian poetry. Focusing not on “schools”, but on high examples of the poetic creativity of M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova, O. Mandelstam, he managed to convey to us, under conditions of strict aesthetic dictate, the traditions of the Silver Age as a whole, giving them a unique individual refraction. Poetics of Arseny Tarkovsky had a direct impact on the cinematic world of her son, director Andrei Tarkovsky: in the film “Mirror” the poems “First Dates” are heard, which became an integral part of this film.