INTERPRETATION OF ARTISTIC IMAGES IN TEACHING RUSSIAN POETRY FOR STUDENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE GROUPS (on the example of Tashkent poems of A.A. Akhmatova)

Abstract

According to V. Ivanov, “Russian poetry also includes the East as part of our living history, continuing in the experience of modernity” [3: 424]. Akhmatova’s poetic pseudonym already refers to the East: “They named me Anna in honor of my grandmother Anna Yegorovna Motovilova. Her mother was a Chingizid, a Tatar princess Akhmatova, whose surname, without realizing that I was going to become a Russian poet, I made my literary name” [6]. But Akhmatova’s deep interest in the East and Eastern culture begins during her Tashkent period (evacuation). Akhmatova was evacuated to Tashkent from 1941 to May 1944. In the poems of this period, she turns to the East, to its nature and culture, creating her own poetic myth about it.