The Category of Knighthood and the Symbolism of the Knight in the Superstory of Elena Guro Poor knight (in Contextual Coverage)

Abstract

The material of the research in this message is the super-story of Elena Guro “Poor Knight” (1913), considered in the context of philosophical and aesthetic searches in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The work is aimed at contextual analysis and hermeneutic interpretation of this work, and takes into account the specificity of perception by the author of the phenomenon of chivalry. The novelty (originality) of our research is that the interpretation of the above superstate in the context of the chivarlic tradition, the chivarlic myth of Parsifal and Lohengrin, which was undoubtedly present in the Russian cultural discourse at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, is offered for the first time. The proof of this will serve the works of V.S. Soloviev, M.O. Menshikov, D. Merezhskovski. In the analysis of the work, the important will be associative connections and references to the primary images-that is, Pushkin's knight (The poor knight lived in the world...), the Wagner swan knight, Lohengrin, and the knights of the round table (Grail symbolism, the symbolism of Christ’s sacrifice), etc. The subject of detailed research are the ways and forms of author's (personal) comprehension of the cultural chivarlic myth by Elena Guro. The analysis of the Poor Knight will be aimed at deciphering chivarlic and initiatory symbolism (riminism of the initiation ritual), which is inherently associated with the axiological category of chivalry.