Epitaph Dedication to Gumilyov by His Fellow Acmeists: a Play of Obvious and Secret Meanings
Journal: Nauchnyi Dialog
Year: 2021

The issue of secret commemoration of N. S. Gumilyov by his associates is discussed in the article. Attention is paid to the role of the frame text — titles, dedications, dating of poems — in the formation of the crypto text, hiding information. The results of a comparative analysis of the texts by M.A. Zenkevich, V.I. Narbut and S.M. Gorodetsky — the so-called “small” acmeists, who implicitly and explicitly reacted to the death of N.S. Gumilyov. The question is raised about the opposition of the