“Alexander Sergeyich, I Miss You”: Pushkin - a Personage of Georgy Ivanov’s Lyrics

The purpose of the study is to identify the stylistic means of creating the image of Pushkin, as well as its aesthetic function in Georgy Ivanov’s works. It is argued that the intertext of G. Ivanov, references to the works of A. Pushkin occupy a significant place. However, Pushkin is present in the poetic world of G. Ivanov not only at the level of words and images, he is a living character in lyric poems, appearing in five texts from different periods of creativity. G. Ivanov focuses on important episodes of Pushkin’s fate: The Lyceum, the Decembrist uprising, marriage, duel, death. The major focus is G. Ivanov’s various techniques to introduce Pushkin as a character into the text: metrical allusion to Pushkin’s hexameter poems; conceptual integration of mental spaces; symbolization (Pushkin is one of the symbols of abandoned Russia); stylistic transformation of conversational genres. The following conclusions were made as the major result of the research: The figure of Pushkin embodies various facets of artistic meaning, relevant for the lyrical hero of G. Ivanov - the dream of poetic glory; personal involvement in tragic historical events; touching the world harmony, the music of the spheres; courage in the face of death; Guided by Pushkin’s antinomy of the “humble” and the “divine,” G. Ivanov constructs the image of Pushkin at the intersection of high pathos and low conversational elements