Siberia in the Artistic Vision of Anna Akhmatova (the Context of A Little Geography)
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2019

This article examines the structure of Siberian text in Anna Akhmatova’s poetry and prose; this type of text took shape in her works in the 1930s–1940s. The purpose of this study is to establish recurrent systematic attributes of the author’s image of Siberian space relying on the methodological principles of scrutiny of “psychophysiological spaces” put forward by V. N. Toporov in some of his research. Akhmatova’s Siberian locus establishes a dialogue and debate with Osip Mandelstam’s poetry, Le