%0 Journal Article %T The mythical thinking of B. Pasternak in the cycle Romanovka %A Maltseva O. %J Vestnik Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %D 2013 %I Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %X This article considers the features of the manifestation of B. Pasternak¡¯s mythologism in his early cycle ¡°Romanovka¡± (included in the book My Sister, Life). The author emphasises the Christian nature of the poet¡¯s interpretation of the war and revolution period of 1917. Special attention is paid to the means of the implementation of the author¡¯s idea of the Fall, punishment, and atonement in Russia at that historical moment. The article stresses the role of Biblical allusions in the literary structure of the cycle. %K Boris Pasternak %K cycle %K motif %K myth %U http://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/2ae/Maltseva_116-122.pdf