Dramatic relationships between A. A. Akhmatova and N. S. Gumilev as mirrored in her poem «I See the Faded Flag over the Customs House...» (Essays in realia and poetological comments).
Journal: Journal of the National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”: Philology and Educational Studies
Year: 2014

The authors reconstruct the circumstances under which the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova wrote her poem I See the Faded Flag over the Customs House in 1912 and reveal the Petersburg and Crimean realia underlying its poetic imagery. Among the Petersburg realia are the Maritime Customs House with its special flag and Prof. D. Ott’s clinic founded in 1797 by Empress Maria Feodorovna and widely referred to as the “Imperial Maternity”. Among the Crimean realia are the suburbs of Sevastopol (with N. Tour