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This article offers a new analytical approach to the “procession” of lyrical images in the works of Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Innokenty Annensky, and Mikhail Kuzmin. The author reviews the transformation and renewal of lyrical forms and ways of expressing the inner world of contemporaries by poets of the 1900s and 1920s (types of role images, “voicing” religious and moral vacillations of modern man, lyrical confession and theatricalization, polyphony and dialogism, ironic worldview and the unity of being, a combination of natural and spiritual perception and understanding of life). For this purpose, theoretical works by poets are involved, summarizing the nature of the new lyrics, as well as some artistic texts. Sergey Esenin’s peculiar reactions to the discoveries of the twentieth-century poets, as well as the reciprocal influence of his work on the modern and subsequent literary process, are assumed and partially defined.