VICTORIA YANKOVSKAYA’S PLACE IN RUSSIAN POETRY

Abstract

The article determines the direction of V.Yu. Yankovskaya’s poetry in the context of the Silver age. The periodization of her work is considered, identifies the key artistic means, the evolution of the lyrical hero, the degree of presence of the author’s beginning and its interaction with the surrounding world. The author analyzes each creative period of V. Yankovskaya, which allows identifying trends in mixing elements of acmeism and symbolism, which helps classify V.Yu. Yankovskaya’s poetry as “neoacmeism”. The relevance of the research is explained by the interest of literary science in the poetry of the Russian abroad, as well as the need to determine the aesthetic position of the poetess. The task of the research is to determine the literary direction which Yankovskaya’s poetry can be attributed to. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the low level of knowledge of the problem.