Types of Comments in the “Dictionary of the Language of Russian Poetry (the 20<sup>th</sup> Century)”

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The “Dictionary of the language of Russian Poetry (the 20th century)”, which is being created as an explanatory concordance, not only (unlike earlier concordances) contains full contexts from selected sources, but also provides a large amount of linguistic and historical and cultural information included in the commenting areas of the dictionary entry. The dictionary has a consolidated character, describes the language of ten major poets of the Silver Age: I. Annensky, A. Akhmatova, A. Blok, S. Yesenin, M. Kuzmin, O. Mandelstam, V. Mayakovsky, B. Pasternak, V. Khlebnikov, M. Tsvetaeva. The article analyzes the types of comments in the dictionary of poetic language, their place in the dictionary entry and their role in understanding the poetic text.