Vek Perevoda (Russian: ''Век Перевода'', ''“The Age Of Translation”'') is a website devoted to history and practice of the Russian poetical

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from the end of the 19th century up to the present time. The website was founded in 2003 by the famous Russian writer and translator

Eugen V. Witkowsky Eugen V. Witkowsky (''Евге́ний Влади́мирович Витко́вский''; June 18, 1950 – February 3, 2020) was a Russian fiction and fantasy writer, literary scholar, poet, and translator. Biography Witkowsky came from a ...

. At first it was based on the materials of the anthology “Strophes Of The Century, part 2”, collected by Witkowsky since the 1960s. Conceptually, the site is a constantly updated

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and guide. Vek Perevoda is the largest web-project in Russian devoted to foreign poetry; the works of more than 1000 Russian translators are published there.May, 2011 The anthology of the same name is being issued by the founder since 2005. This website contains Russian translations of the poetical works from dozens of foreign languages including Quechua,

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, Romansh, Kashubian,

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...

and other languages previously almost unknown in Russia. Among the most significant publications are: the first complete Russian translation of the “ Bateau ivre” by Arthur Rimbaud (1910); translation of the works by José de Espronceda; sonnets of

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

translated by Vyacheslav Ivanov etc. Domain vekperevoda.com is registered in the United States.

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