KLYUEVSKY NARYM: METAPHYSICS AND REALITY

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study and reconstruction of the life of N.A. Klyuev in Kolpashevo, the administrative center of the Narym district. Until now, this period of the poet’s life and work in keystone studies has been presented quite schematically. Using the mythopoetic method, the author examined Klyuev’s letters from Kolpashevo, in which the cry of a doomed, desperate man is heard, hourly feeling the approach of death. These letters melted the physical and spiritual torments of the poet, elements of folklore laments and lamentations, and epistolary genres of Christian martyrs. However, in the archives of the poet’s friend’s family, another Narym poem – “The Kremlin” – was preserved. Firstly the poem was published with the direct author’s participation and the preliminary article and comments by T.A. Kravchenko and A.I. Mikhailova. Based on the analysis and interpretation of archival documents, letters of the poet and memoirs of contemporaries, through the use of the method of descriptive poetics and reconstruction, the author recreated the Kolpashevo period of Klyuev’s life. The conducted research allows us to better understand the spiritual state of the poet in the Siberian exile and reveal how his liberation from Narym hell and transfer to Tomsk took place.