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The speech, dedicated to the memory of the People’s Poet of Abkhazia M.T. Lasuria, discusses deep parallels of the poem “The Star of Dawn” with the most prominent artistic creations of world literature, in connection with which the names of Blessed Augustine, John Chrysostom, the psalmist King David, N.M. Karamzin, G.R. Derzhavin, N.V. Gogol, Petr Njegosh, Irakli Abashidze, Timur Zulfikarov and others are mentioned. Particular significance is given to the fact that the poem was written a poet of the older generation, who experienced in the 20th century the violent propaganda of atheism and speculation on spiritual values. A view of world and national history from eternity determines the presence of such themes in the poem as the biblical spirit of prophecy and the Christian spirit of prayer, the cessation of the spirit of enmity, repentance for short-sightedness, love and loyalty to one’s land and people. It is noted that the unconditional significance of the poem lies in its appeal to the sacred history of the Bible and the sacred histories of the Abkhaz and Russian peoples, to the understanding of one’s past as part of the world process, one of the components of the history of the Church. It is emphasized that the comprehension of M.T. Lasuria’s poem inevitably requires the broadest global scale.