ОТ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ К ГНОСТИЦИЗМУ: МИХАИЛ КУЗМИН ОСЕНЬЮ 1917 Г.

Abstract

The article analyzes Mikhail Kuzmin’s poetic cycle Sofia. Gnostic Poems (1917–1918) in the context of his political position in the second half of 1917. Contrary to the assumptions that this cycle, inspired with Gnostic symbolism, became Kuzmin’s way of escapism and his departure from actual problems, a new interpretation of the cycle is proposed. Analysis of the poetics and pragmatics of the cycle against the background of his other works and diaries of 1917 suggests that the gnostic theme has become the way of his mystical understanding of the revolution. Taking into account the fact that the poems were written during a period when Kuzmin shared revolutionary enthusiasm and welcomed both the February and October revolutions. The central Gnostic myth, the descent of Sophia, Kuzmin juxtaposed onto current events, trying to see in the revolution a project for a radical reorganization of the world and the spiritual renewal of man