Gurzuf kak locus amoenus v žiznetvorčestve A.S. Puškina
Journal: Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing eBooks
Year: 2022

In 1820 Pushkin spent most of the summer with the Raevsky family in the Caucasus and then in Gurzuf, Crimea. As an aspiring poet he was inspired by Konstantin Batiushkov to create a myth of his life and represent himself in the same context as the ancient Greek and Renaissance lyricists. Key to this was Gurzuf, which, following the example of Petrarch’s stay in Vaucluse, he described as a locus amoenus, thereby, like the Italian poet, combining two traditions – Homeric and Christian symbology. H