Information about the author:
Olga L. Fetisenko
Olga L. Fetisenko, DSc in Philology, Leading Research Fellow, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova Emb. 4, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-002-5670-2656
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Abstract:
The poem by Vyacheslav Ivanov in German, titled “Geschenks- Widmung” (1934), dedicated to his “companion on the spiritual path”, O.A. Shor, is examined by the publisher in the context of other messages, dedications, and epigrams that the poet addressed to the same person. The biographical subtext of this donation inscription and at the same time the epigram is explained: the history of the nickname “Flamingo”, Olga Alexandrovna’s engagement with German philosophy in her youth, and possibly Ivanov’s dissatisfaction with Shor’s delay in completing her philosophical work “Mnemology”.
