THE IMAGE EMBODIMENT OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE THEME IN THE RUSSIAN POETRY IN CHINA FROM 1920S TO 1940S

Abstract

The Russian poetry in China receives special attention in the study of the artistic significance of the Eastern branch of the Russian poetry abroad. The topic of motherland, the theme of Russia, is recognized as a conceptually important topic of this phenomenon. This article examines it in a new aspect – a poetic view of Russia, taken by the Russian poets of China in the 1920s and 1940s through the prism of names and images of their native literature. This determines the novelty of the research, since the task of considering the topic of literature as a possibility of artistic identification of the collective image of Russia was not previously set. Turning to such an analysis is relevant, since it will clarify and complement the idea of not only ideological, but also aesthetic and artistic awareness of the tragic destinies of far Eastern Russia. Russian literature is the subject of the most significant poems by F. L. Kamyshnyuk, T. P. Andreeva, A. I. Nesmelov, N. F. Svetlov, N. A. Shchegolev, and N. V. Peterets. The researcher identifies the artistic means of its mythologized exaltation: images of Russian writers as inhabitants of the celestial spheres, comparison of Russian literature with a jewel, and others. There is no doubt about the evolution of the topic under consideration, which in the 1930s acquired a tragic sound. This was largely facilitated by the appeal to images of the “ghostly” world of Russian literature and its representatives.