Abstract
The article discusses the possible influence of the optical effects of the painting by F. Matveyev “Imatra Falls in Finland” on the imagery of Russian poetry from I. Annensky to B. Pasternak. It is shown that although Imatra was the closest natural landmark to St. Petersburg, the imagery associated with it could be not just an ekphrasis of the picture, but a “complex ekphrasis”, which included the features of the museum hall in which the picture was exhibited. The focus is on how the poetics of ekphrasis changes when other types of movement are taken into account, apart from the simple revitalization of still images. The analysis of the movement in this picture and the use of sources relevant to Russian Symbolist and world classic poetry, primarily Ovid and Verlaine, make it possible to clarify the specifics of some futuristic images of Russian poetry, such as a comparison of sea and beer in B. Pasternak’s “Themes and Variations”.
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