The Context of Religious Themes in K. Vaginov's Poetry

The work is devoted to the religious themes of K. Vaginov's poetry and the idea of pan-mongolism associated with them, which first appeared in the works of V.S. Solovyov in the meaning of destructive power from the east. In Russian philosophical thought, it often accompanies various concepts about the salvation of humanity from cultural decline and the so-called “end of history”. In Vaginov's work, pan-mongolism becomes an invariable part of the image of the revolution and the post-revolutionary world. The religious theme forms the main antithesis of the poetic body of Vaginov's texts: paganism and Christianity. The first is associated with Vaginov's unattainable harmonious ideal of the world order. The image of Christianity is twofold: on the one hand, it is part of the bygone era of the Russian Empire, on the other, of the new Soviet world due to the similarity of the methods used. A detailed analysis of a number of Vaginov's poems and the identification of intertextual connections allows integrating his poetry into the context of the literary tradition of the early 20th century, in particular, in comparison with the first novel trilogy by D.S. Merezhkovsky and A. Bely's novel "Petersburg". At the same time, the role, meaning and relationship of religious motives and themes of pan-mongolism in the poet's artistic system are determined.