House with a tower of Vyacheslav Ivanov and symbolism in the Russian literature

The House with a tower was an apartment of Vyacheslav Ivanov where the poet resided with his wife, Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal. The House with a tower is a unique cultural phenomenon of the 20th century and a gathering place for the most famous writers and artists of the Silver Age. It was the House with a tower where Alexander Block read The Unknown Lady, Anna Akhmatova read her first poems. Ivan Bunin and Maxim Gorky visited the House with a tower, and future creator Vsevolod Meyerhold of the theatrical biomechanics showed bold directorial experiments.

The Silver Age was at the junction of two centuries, when the greatest thinkers, poets and philosophers felt themselves at the ending point of the important era, after which, as it seemed to them then, there would be nothing. Poets of that time experimented dividing life in "before" and "after" the First World War and revolution. Problems of symbols, myths, words, and poetics have risen to the top of the agenda.

Speaker

Nina Shcherbak, Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology and Cultural Linguistics at St Petersburg University, Master of Arts (the United Kingdom), writer and screenwriter. She is also a scriptwriter for science television shows, author of fifteen monographs, and books on linguistics, literature, philosophy of language, and English literature.

The lecture will be held as a part of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg University, the first university in Russia.

The meeting will be held online in Russian with simultaneous translation into Spanish.

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