Color symbols and mystical motives in V. F. Khodasevich’s poetry

The article deals with the role of color symbolism in V. Khodasevich’s poetry. In particular, attention is paid to mystical motives, which, on the one hand, have a symbolist genesis, and on the other hand, get involved in the later neoclassical outline of the texts. It is proved that the color texture of the image, most often being associated with the everyday life, and expressed by various color epithets, is an important visual marker of the transition to the mystical space or going out of it (evident from the poems "In Petrovsky Park", "Smolensk Market", "Episode", "November 2"). It is assumed that color can be regarded as a means of integrating the symbolic and subject-object principles in V. Khodasevich's poetic texts. At the same time, the poems "Music" and "Ballad" are also considered as works with a mystical plot of spiritual transformation