Reception of Pushkin’s personality and works in the lyrics of Yakut poets of the 20th – early 21st centuries

The influence of the personality and creative heritage of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin on his contemporaries and descendants – artists of words – cannot be overestimated. Both critics and the authors themselves of both Russian and national literature (since the 19th century) have repeatedly noted that the experience of the great teacher and fighter became for them a model and guideline in the search for their own creative path. This article attempts to analyze the receptive perception of creativity and personality of A.S. Pushkin by Yakut poets of the 20th – early 21st centuries. The purpose of this study is to consider the thematic and motif-figurative reception of Pushkin’s works and biography in the literary output of Yakut poets. The analysis revealed that the key themes of the analyzed poems are the themes of struggle and freedom, slave past and free future, life and death, memory and gratitude. Image of A.S. Pushkin is recreated in all the greatness of his creative genius: a champion, a conductor of free will, the founder of Russian literature and many national literatures, at the same time, he is the closest brother of the quill. All poems are united by the main idea of glorifying the genius of Russian literature. The research material was the poems of Yakut poets translated into Russian, included in the publication dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin. This article’s theoretical basis includes the works of N.N. Levakin and E.G. Melnikova. Based on the works of domestic and foreign literary scholars, the authors emphasize the importance of the receptive approach to the analysis of a literary text as a carrier of a certain set of echoes of previous cultural experience. The poet, when creating a work, implicitly relies on what he has read earlier, refracting the experience gained through the prism of the individual author’s worldview. The result is an original text in which the author’s “receptive experience” “shines through.” Furthermore, the perception of a literary work depends on objective social and historical factors, as well as on the individual and personal traits of the recipient.

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