Alexander Shmyrin is a modern Russian poet, the author of many collections of lyrics devoted to various topics: love, life, nature, history, philosophy. His poems are distinguished by their depth of thought, expressiveness of images, and musicality of rhythm. The collection “Silence” is a kind of lyrical meditation in which the poet reflects on the meaning of life, about time, about love. Most of the poems in the collection belong to the genre of landscape lyrics. But at the same time, we also see the inner world of the lyrical hero, his feelings, thoughts, memories. And in nature, the poet remains true to his themes of contrasting day and evening, city and countryside, life and death, joy and sadness, hope and despair, love and separation.