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2026/1(63) Contents CULTURAL THEORY Bilalov M. Kudrina E. CULTURAL HISTORY Kazin A. Ponomarenko E. Seregina N. Zhou Mingge Shuyakova E. APPLIED CULTURAL RESEARCH Kashkova A. Koksheneva K. Kolotov I. Markov A. Fedotov A. Qin Ying |
DOI 10.34685/HI.2026.46.62.011 Markov A. ‘The Dream of a Deity’: The Estate Palimpsest and the Metaphysics of the Sleeping Cupid in the Painting of V.E. Borisov-Musatov Abstract. This article interprets V.E. Borisov-Musatov’s panel “The Dream of a Deity,” created for the Derozhinskaya mansion, within the context of the Russian estate as a cultural topos. Approaching the work as a visual elegy, the author explores its connection to a Pushkinian worldview “without Pushkin,” analyzes the motif of the “ineffable,” and draws a parallel between the sleeping Cupid and the crisis of the Romantic consciousness. Through the prism of mythological allusions (Orion, Hymen), the conceived panel emerges not merely as a depiction of a winter season, but as a philosophical statement on the nature of love, memory, and loss in the “estate romance” of fin-de-siècle Russian culture.
Keywords: Borisov-Musatov, estate text, sleeping Cupid, elegy, memory, Russian Symbolism, Pushkin myth. Markov Alexander Viktorovich, D. in Philology, Full professor, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) Email: markovius@gmail.com |
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