A. S. Pushkin's Address "To a Kalmyk Maiden": Aspects of Genre Originality
The main feature of the genre of the poetic form in question is an appeal to the addresses. The article defines the typology of addresses, including addresses to a recipient who is by default unable to response - as in A.S. Pushkin's Address “To a Kalmyk Maiden”. The poem specifics is analyzed with respect to its constituents: the genres of epigram and madrigal. The analysis is aimed at finding links within the motives of its creation, the correlation between the meeting the Kalmyk maiden by the poet and the moral and psychological collision of the characters in the last chapter of “Eugene Onegin”.