The article analyzes a cycle of 22 sonnets dedicated to the greatest masterpiece of Russian wooden architecture – the Transfiguration Church in Kizhi, glorified by its creator as the apotheosis of the trinitarian idea. The author, Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik, is a famous philosopher, writer, and religious thinker from Petrozavodsk. He wrote an incredible number (six and a half hundred) of first-class wreaths of sonnets, including a lot about the lives of the saints in the Russian North, especially those who were close to Sergius of Radonezh. Through their efforts, the celebration of the Trinity became a major part of Russian culture. To the spiritual feat of the founder of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, who established the principle of the monastery dormitory (kind of a kinovia) that helped united Russia get rid of the 300-year-old Tatar-Mongol yoke, Linnik dedicated one of his best poems, written not without the influence of Epiphanius the Wise, the bright representative of “weaving words” style. An analysis of the poem cycle dedicated to Kizhi Church showed that the idea of trinity predetermined the main tendency in the architecture of the monument and its poetic reflection, which is to saturate the text with geometric shapes and sacred numbers, similar to the author's style in “Divine Comedy”.
Key words: Yuri Linnik, sonnet, wreath of sonnets, trinitarianism, Sergius of Radonezh, Epiphanius the Wise, Dante Alighieri, sacred digitalization
DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662-2025-4-161-168
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Oleg I. Fedotov – D.Sci. (Philology), Full Professor, Professor at the Department of Russian Classical Literature of the Institute of Philology of the Moscow State Pedagogical University; build. 1, 1 Malaya Pirogovskaya st., Moscow, 119435, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |