The Silver Age Bohemia: Codes and Meanings
This article is about the bohemia of the Silver age as an original phenomenon of Russian culture at the boundary of XIX and XX centuries, of «fin de siècle» culture. Every culture phenomenon is a semiotic field and a variety of sign tools used in current culture. The authors see the goal of this article in describing the culture codes and disclosing the core meanings that were created and circulated by the Silver age bohemia. The spatial, temporal, objective, verbal and somatic codes are highlighted here. Also here is considered how each of those codes demonstrated the symbolic went away of the whole generation of gifted, artistic, educated, metropolitan people of that time from the field of social life. They «leave» into the «cellar», into the «night», into the «carnival»; they change names and paint over faces to create their world - the new form of existence, and to destroy the common hierarchy between serious and idle, significant and negligible, legal and outlaw. And by this to save the completeness of life, to fill life with their sense by stating their core values - freedom and creation.