REVOLUTION AS CHRISTMAS: B. L. PASTERNAK’S PRO ETI STIKHI

Abstract

This article offers an interpretation of one of the most famous poems in the book Sestra Moia — Zhizn. The goal is to reconstruct the poet’s actual perception of his epoch through the prism of the most important symbolic marker of time, holidays. The proposed approach, which hasn’t been previously applied to Pasternak’s lyrics, leads to a more comprehensive picture of how the main historical event of the era was rationalized on the mythological level of his perception of reality.