To the characterization of «Vertograd mnogocvetnyj» by Simeon Polockij as an author’s collection of poems

This article contains an analysis of the poetical cycle «Abstinence» («Vozderzhanije») – one of the poetical cycles of «Vertograd mnogocvetnyj». The main purpose of the article is to show, how traditions of Old Russian edifying literature and poetics of Moscow baroque manifest themselves in a collection of poems. Despite most poems of this cycle are based on West-European sources, Simeon Polockij recasts them creatively using them to implement his own concept. This concept manifests itself in the composition of poetical cycle and in the structure of its imagery. In addition to this the cycle is included in the context of the entire collection of poems through the system of poetical repetitions.