G. IVANOV’S COLLECTED POEMS OF THE 1910S: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTIC SELF-DETERMINATION

The article discusses the issue of the early poems of G. Ivanov’s definition as symbolist or acmeist. Alexander Blok was the most important figure, who influenced Georgy Ivanov’s formation at the beginning of his way. Also researchers often mention the names of M. Kuzmin, N. Gumilev etc. In this regard the main problem of researching this period of Ivanov’s way seems to determine his early poems as symbolist or acmeist ones. The poems of the first book “The Embarkment for Cythera” tend to be ...