Russian poetry and Rembrandt

[Olga Meerson]

Wow! Sasha Smith's list is a comprehensive course in Russian Silver Age and contemporary poetry all in itself! Wonderful!
o.m.

----- Original Message -----
From: Alexandra Smith <Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK>
Date: Friday, May 25, 2007 7:54 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian poetry and Rembrandt

> Dear Otto,
> 
> In addition to Olga Meerson's suggestion to look at Mandelshtam's poem
> "Kak svetoteni muchenik Rembrandt" (1937) (see Nadezhda Mandelshtam's
> comment on its autobiographical and prophetic qualities), I would like
> to add to your list of texts Akhmatova's poem "I prekrasnei mrakov
> Rembrandta/Prosto plesen' v chernom uglu..." (1954); Kushner's
> collection of poems "Nochnoi dozor" (inspired by Rembrandt as Kushner
> revealed in several interviews); and Aleksander Kochetkov's one-act
> play about Rembrandt -- "Golova gomera"; Dmitrii Kedrin's play  
> (written in verse) "Rembrandt" (1940)... Vladimir Narbut was very 
> much  
> inspired by Rembrandt's paintings, too, but I don't remeber any  
> specific references at this point; Nikolai Otsup wrote in his long 
> 
> narrative poem about his  meeting with Annensky in a study 
> compared to  
> Rembrandt's paintings (na sumrak Rembrandta pokhozhii...)(Otsup, 
> 1993:  
> it's the edition that was prepared by Roman Timenchik)... Pavel  
> Antokol'skii was often compared to Rembrandt but I don't remember  
> whether his collection of poems "Nochnoi smotr" (1974, I think) 
> has  
> any specific references to Rembrandt, it contains allusions to  
> Zhukovsky, of course, but there might be something  that evokes  
> Rembrandt's works ... and, of course, Nikolai Zabolotsky was 
> always  
> very sensitive to paintings. You might wish to have a look at his 
> poem  
> "Gomborskii les" (1957) which includes the lines: "Zdes' osen' 
> sumela  
> takie passazhi/ Naliapat' iz okhry, ognia i belil, /Chtob dub  
> busheval, kak Rembrandt v Ermitazhe, /A klen, akak Muril'o, na  
> kryl'iakh paril"."
> Good luck with your fascinating project!
> 
> All best,
> Sasha Smith
> 
> 
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