SCYTHIAN TEXT IN THE WORKS OF I. BUNIN

Abstract

The author analyzes a number of poems of
the poet-realist Ivan Bunin and shows how the Scythian
theme developed in his work, and what philosophical
and aesthetic reasons are behind the shift of Scythians
interpretation as a historical fact to the chanting of the
Scythians as a phenomenon of the spirit. The researcher
concludes that the so-called Scythian text of Russian literature
has above-aesthetic nature and argues that it is
an expression of spiritual and aesthetic values of the pre-
Revolutionary era of Russian society abroad.