Стихотворение А. А. Ахматовой «Вижу выцветший флаг над таможней. . . » (опыт реального комментария)
Journal: Ученые записки Крымского федерального университета имени В. И. Вернадского. Филологические науки
Year: 2014

The paper suggests a new interpretation of final lines in Anna Akhmatova`s poem on Chersonesus (1912). Most of the comments in Anna Akhmatova’s collections of the works on her poem «I see the faded flag over the customs house» evade the clear answer why the poet called the dome of St. Vladimir's Cathedral in Chersonesus as «swarthy» and why it’s plural in her poems («cupolas»). It must be admitted that the realia of time and place (in this case the realia of Sevastopol) are carefully studied for