"Flora Alphabet" in the Figurative Literature Language of the Pushkin Epoch
Sources. Semantics. Form
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The author thoroughly investigates the European flower symbolism. The monograph traces the sources of the emergence of the "language of flowers" and its applications on the example of the family albums, letters and diaries of the Russian nobility from St. Petersburg archives and on the example of the poetry of Pushkin, Viazemskii, Batiushkov and Baratynskii.