The philosophy poetry of G.R. Derzhavin: the contrast of life and death

Abstract

This article is devoted to the eshatological philosophical concept of the G.R. Derzhavins’ poetry. The author describes the presentation of the theme of death and its artistic transformation in the works of the poet as the reception of the Orthodox tradition, a kind of the cultural memory.

Keywords

• the opposition of life and death
• philosophy poetry
• religion
• Russian literature
• Old Russian literature
• XVIII century