Vyačeslav Ivanov Between Dante and Dionysus. The Poet’s Visionary Experience of 1908 and the Problem of Triple Unions

The article examines the symbolist poet Vyačeslav Ivanov’s visionary experience in the context of his poetic creativity and life-creating practices. Ivanov's visionary experience, inspired by the death of his wife Lidija Zinov’eva-Annibal, was not only reflected in his artistic work, but also influenced by his poetic imagery. In the vision, Ivanov, together with his winged deceased wife Lidija, communicates with a fiery heart, and then communicates with Lidija's daughter Vera, who is then placed in the heart of her mother. We assert that the vision of Ivanov makes use of not only Dante's symbo... Mehr ...