Nikolai Zabolotsky was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. A Modernist, Zabolotsky was a founder of the Russian avant-garde absurdist group Oberiu.
Sally (Sarah) Pratt is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at USC Dornsife. She is the author of Russian Metaphysical Romanticism: The Poetry of Tiutchev and Boratynskii and The Semantics of Chaos in Tjutcev.