Star move. Khodasevich V.

“The largest poet of our time, the literary descendant of Pushkin according to the Tyutchevsky line, he will remain the pride of Russian poetry, while the last memory of it is alive,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov, who honored such high assessments about Khodasevich. In addition to verses, the creative heritage of Vladislav Khodasevich includes historical and literary work about Pushkin and Derzhavin’s biography, critical articles and memories, including Necropolis-an example of brilliant memoirs and one of the most striking evidence of the era of the Silver Age. The poetic debut of Khodasevich took place in 1905 in the almanac of the Symbolist Publishing House, Griff, where three years later the first poetic book was published - Youth (1908), which was followed by the collection “Happy House” (1914). The early work of Khodasevich, which has become a reflection of the mystical trends of the Silver Age, by the definition of critics, was a kind of “cocoon”, from which all his mature lyrics came out. In this publication, the poet’s creative path is fully represented: from the early youthful verses to the main books that became the alloy of Pushkin’s tradition and the achievements of Russian modernism and brought the glory of the great poet to Vladislav Khodasevich: “by grain” (1920), “Heavy lyre” (1921 ) and "European Night" (1927).