Il viaggio per la Cimmeria come dimensione della vita e dell’arte: il mito di Koktebel’ nei poeti russi del primo Novecento
Journal: Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
Year: 2016

A poet and an artist who was born in Kiev and who lived for many years in Koktebel, Maximilian Voloshin transformed this small hamlet in Eastern Crimea into a kind of Mecca for writers that attracted authors belonging to different literary movements. It was in the works of some of Voloshin’s guests that the myth of Koktebel was born. At the heart of this myth, there is Voloshin’s conception of the Eastern Crimea: a mystical union of nature’s forces in perfect harmony with human beings. In my art