Abstract
This article deals with the poetic principles of Ahmatova’s mature period. They grew from the ethical and aesthetic guidelines of acmeism, which was understood by Axmatova as the “broken thread” of the Russian Renaissance. They prove that the artistic principles of Renaissance creators (Dante and Shakespeare), at the epoch of the Great terror and of the Second World War, are transformed in Ahmatova’s works into a special poetical code, which helped to create a secret language for reporting forbidden things. In her poetical cycle In 1940, describing the concret situation of Paris occupied by Hitler’s troops refers us to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Ahmatova uses these motives-prototypes to create the atmosphere of suffering in Leningrad during the Great terror. In Poem Without a Hero, in which many echoes of Dante and Shakespeare, as well as Leonardo da Vinci’s “mirror writing”, play the role of a semantic code.
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