ИСКУССТВО И ХУДОЖНИКИ В ЛИТЕРАТУРНОЙ РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ ОСТРОВА КИЖИ
ART AND ARTISTS IN LITERARY REPRESENTATION OF KIZHI ISLAND

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to analyze the layer of references to the fine arts in literary texts about Kizhi Island, which was not previouslyconsidered in the studies on the representation of the island. In prose and poetry about Kizhi from the late 1950s, such referencesappeared regularly. Among the main types (namings and images of artists, ekfrasis) a group of images and namings of artists,fictional and real, is examined in detail. Their appearance in the works about the island is due to its cultural history, which formeda special landscape focused on the Kizhi Pogost, a recognized masterpiece of architecture, as well as to some features of the Thawperiod, when many bright works about Kizhi were written and published. Artists appear in the Kizhi plots as characters (from protagonistto episodic persons) and often have a special status, intermediate between the indigenous islanders and tourists. Along withthe conventional figures, in this material there are the names of painters who really existed — Kuindzhi, Van Gogh, Goya, Gauguinand Rockwell Kent. The reasons for the appearance of these names and their intermedial functions in the texts about the island areconsidered in the article. Material for the study are I. Mazuruk’s, E. Nosov’s, Yu. Kazakov’s, V. Pulkin’s, and A. Voznesensky’s textsand memoir sources. The analysis enables us to recognize that the images associated with artists and fine art are the original featurein the literary representation of the island, giving it (along with the sacred meaning of Kizhi churches) the character of a place thatconcentrates exceptional visual possibilities and non-utilitarian meanings.

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