Themes of Music and Love in Works of S. Alymov as a Representation of Spiritual and Value Orientations of Far Eastern Poetry of Silver Age

Abstract

The material of S. Ya. Alymov’s poetry collection “Kiosk of Tenderness” (Harbin, 1920) and various detached poems of the author, preserved only on the pages of the press of the Far East (Vladivostok and Harbin) in the early 1920s is analyzed in the article. It is noted that access to the currently unknown works of S. Alymov is possible only in regional archives. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the writer’s texts are used, which are stored in the materials of the collections of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East and the State Archives of the Primorsky Territory. It is shown that S. Alymov is perceived by the author as one of the original representatives of the Silver Age poetry. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the creative strategy of S. Alymov, based on the desire to be a follower of famous contemporary poets, was deliberately based on various kinds of imitations and stylizations. It is argued that this is not about epigone copying — individual assimilation of the new was conditioned by the picture of the world and the culture of the writer, which were formed in the richest traditions of the Silver Age (literary, musical, dance, theatrical, pictorial).

Keywords

• sergey alymov
• far eastern modernist poetry
• silver age
• china
• harbin
• vladivostok
• russian far eastern emigration