The travel to “the Distant Skies” of world culture: Nikolay Gumilev and tradition

Filatov Anton V.,

Master's student of the Faculty of Philology at

Lomonosov Moscow State University

E-mail: fil201292@yandex.ru

The review presents Elena Kulikova’s book «“The distant skies” of Nikolay Gumilev: Poetry. Prose. Translations» (Novosibirsk, 2015) and it is considered themes of travels and exotic countries which are central for the poet as well as translations of French poets translated by Gumilev.

Keywords: N. Gumilev, mythologem, motif, translation, pantun, painting.

References

1. Gumilev, N.S. Polnoe sobranie sochineniy: v 10 t. Moskva: Voskresen'e, 2006.

2. Chudovskiy, V.A. Literaturnaya zhizn'. Sobraniya I doklady. Russkaya khudozhestvennaya letopis', 1911, no 9, s. 142–143.