This collection of scholarly articles is dedicated to the sixtieth birthday of the prominent Russian philologist and translator M.L. Gasparov. The subject matter of the articles correspond to one of M.L. Gasparov"s principal research interests (theoretical prosody, history of Russian verse). The authors develop theoretical statements introduced by Gasparov in his major monographs ("Modern Russian Verse: Metrics and Rhythm System", 1974; "Short History of Russian Verse", 1984, and others). Charts, bibliographical references.