The analysis of the poem «Fides apostolika» (1921) by M.Kuzmin in the context of graphic and literary heritage of Aubrey Beardsley

The article is devoted to the analysis of the poem Fides Apostolica by M.Kuzmin in the context of the literary and graphic heritage of A. Beardsley, whose name is mentioned in the sixth stanza. The analysis of the external and inner form and content of Kuzmin’s poem reveals the similarity of their poetics; attention to a detail and interior and the context of the boundary of the XIX–XX centuries are common features of the poetics of both. The peculiarity of the poem Fides Apostolica is interweaving of biographical and cultural, Russian and foreign contexts, classical culture and the natural world, change of visual and musical images, reflection of subjects in each other and repeating motifs from stanza to stanza.