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The article explores the notion of guitar poetry and aims at tracing the genealogy of the genre that continued the traditions of music culture widespread in Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and was later revived in the 1940s. The genre had its roots in the classic romance and the urban romance, although it should not be considered as a simple hybrid of the two. The article goes on to establish similarities and differences between these three genres. It looks at the achievement of the major composers and writers who represented the guitar poetry movement, such as Victor Berkovsky, Aleksandr Mirzayan and Sergey Nikitin (composers), and Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva (writers). The article addresses the themes of guitar poetry and puts a special emphasis on the genre’s pessimistic approach towards love. |
