Abstract
The article considers the language code, which was constructed by the Younger generation of Russian Symbolists under the influence of Tchaikovsky’s opera “The Queen of Spades”. The author discovers and reveals the mechanisms which allow one to evaluate the surrounding reality through the use of images borrowed from the structure of the musical text. The material illustrating the phenomenon is the memoirs encoded in the language of “The Queen of Spades” from the memoirs of A. Bely. In them Tomsky’s opera ballad, the pastorale “The Shepherdess’s Sincerity”, the romance “It is already Evening”, the aria “And on rainy days they gathered” and the image of old countess perform the function of signifiers. The signified are disclosed with the help of structural-semiotic method. It is proved that references to the elements of the opera encode A. Bely’s reflection on the summer events of 1905 and the situation of A. G. Kovalenskaya. The novelty of the research is a significant expansion of the zone of influence of Tchaikovsky’s work on the Younger generation of Russian Symbolists.
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