Silver Age is a term traditionally applied by Russian
philologists to the last decade of 19th century and first two or three decades of the 20th century. It was an exceptionally creative period in the history of
Russian poetry, on par with the
Golden Age a century earlier. The term
Silver Age was first suggested by philosopher
Nikolai Berdyaev, but it only became customary to refer thus to this era in literature in the 1960s. In the Western world other terms, including
Fin de siècle and
Belle Époque, are somewhat more popular.