ATTRACTION BACK. THE "ANCIENT" CITY OF KHARA-KHOTO IN THE ICONOGRAPH OF RUSSIAN SYMBOLISM (EPISODE FROM CREATIVE WORK ANATOLY MIKULI)
The article is devoted to the study of the unique inner nature of iconographic searches of symbolic artists, associated with longing for finding an ideal imaginative space, harmonious with creative dreams and saturated with hermetic memory. The attraction to the unattainable and unknown world, which was the result of the sense of time that had become complicated in symbolism, in which the feeling of a continuous connection between the departed epochs arose, between archaic antiquity and the present, organically developed against the background of real geographic journeys and archaeological discoveries of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries that gave the artists an impulse to writing your own visual images. In this article, this poetic synthesis of the physically preserved details of the past with the lyrical fantasy and philosophical intuition of the masters themselves was first considered on the artistic-historical material, completely new for art studies dealing with the creative problems of Art Nouveau. The scientific analysis of the research is based on the history of the influence of the dead city of Khara-Khoto, discovered by Russian scientists in 1907-1909 during the expedition to Mongolia, on figurative thinking of the symbolist artist, poet and musician Anatoly Mikuli, repressed in 1936 and again returned to the historical context of Russian art.