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The subject of the article is, аmong other things, the creative history of Boris Pasternak’s “The Second Ballad” (1930). Particular attention is paid to the place that inspired the poet to create this poetic masterpiece — a dacha village on the outskirts of the urban settlement of Irpen’ in the suburbs of Kiev. In addition to the geocultural description of the dacha as a place of origin of lyrical inspiration, an analysis of various levels of the artistic structure of “The Second Ballad” is made — its semantic-melodic composition, instrumentation, rhythmic and rhymological construction, imagery. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the central theme of the poem — the motive of born but not yet realized love — is expressed through the demonstration of the stream of consciousness, which is harmoniously combined with the description of the melancholic summer cottage landscape. At the same time, there is continuity in the depiction of noble nests as places where a high feeling and its poetic embodiment are born, and more modest dachas, in which, with their relative democracy, the tradition of intellectual reflection, friendly conversation and sublime eroticism is preserved.