"Beautiful Lady" - Beautiful Lady

…After learning the poetry of VS Solovyov and beginning her friendship with Bely, Mendeleeva expected the world to be renewed and transformed in the 20th century, and she became inseparably identified with the image of Sophia, the mystical woman who would bring about a transformation in the world. This bore fruit in the poem The Beautiful Lady (1903), and she gained fame as a poet. However, her marriage to Mendeleeva (1903) brought an awakening to reality, and a crack appeared in her closed, dreamy world. …

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…V.S.ソロビヨフの詩を知り，ベールイとの交友が始まる中で，到来した20世紀にこの世の刷新，変貌を期待して，メンデレーエワは，世界の変貌をもたらす神秘の女性ソフィアの像と分かちがたく一体化した。それが詩編《うるわしの淑女》(1903)として結実し，詩人としての名声を得た。しかし，メンデレーエワとの結婚(1903)は現実への覚醒をもたらし，閉鎖的な夢想の世界に亀裂が生じた。…

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