Research into the Semantic Poetics of Russian Akmeism& is a collection of articles that combines the texts of two literary theorists and linguists, Suren Zoljan and Mihhail Lotman. The book is devoted to the poetics of Osip Mandelstam and Anna Ahmatova, leading figures of Russian akmeism in which their most important semantic mechanisms are outlined. Mandelstam and Ahmatova both share the compression of meaning, but their works also exhibit principal differences, e.g. Ahmatova often tries to encipher personal information whereas Mandelstam endeavours to put as much world culture as possible into a short poem. The book is a good read for those interested in Russian poetry or linguistic poetry.