Text and Contexts
The article introduces publication of the full text of the narrative poem “Arthur Rimbaud” by
the Omsk poet Yuri (Pyotr Ivanovich) Sopov (1897–1919), written shortly before his tragic
death in the explosion at A.V. Kolchak’s residence on August 25 (or 26), 1919. The text previously had been known by fragments only, by virtue of quotations included in the newspaper
obituary by the poet Georgy Maslov, who briefly survived Sopov. A number of details allow
us to conclude that Sopov is fairly accurate when rendering facts of Rimbaud’s life and must
have been familiar with the French poet’s biography, not just with echoes of the legend.
Therefore, the numerous occasions in the poem, where he prefers fiction over fact, should be
considered as the result of a deliberate choice. In the perception of contemporaries, the image
of the author of the poem partially merged with the mythologized image of its hero. First
of all, this concerns poets of the circle of the Omsk literary and artistic association “Chervonnaya Troika” and writers close to the group “Pamir” (“Siberian brigade”). The poet Leonid Martynov (1905–1980) repeatedly turned to the image of Rimbaud, translated his poems,
compared his image, biography and character to his own, in poetry and in prose. The article
shows that the perception of the French poet in Martynov’s creative laboratory during his long
career was mediated by the memory of Yuri Sopov’s poem.
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Text and Contexts // Сюжетология и сюжетография. 2021. № 1. Pp. 228–263. DOI: 10.25205/2410-7883-2021-1-228-263.