Humanities & Social Sciences 2 (2016 9) 358-373 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82.091:821.161.1 The Mindset of Russian Poetry and Its Rebellion against Russian History Olga A. Karlova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 14.09.2015, received in revised form 07.10.2015, accepted 26.12.2015 The paper is focused on studying self-consciousness of Russian poetry and its specifi c relations to Russian history. <...> The theme choice is determined by celebrating the Year of Literature in Russia and a whole series of anniversaries of the classical poets. <...> To study the correlation between poetic worldview and historic reality of 18th -20th centuries the author used a kind of “litmus historic scale”, based on the concepts of not well-known today Russian scientist, ethnographer, of Valentin A. Moshkov. <...> Ключевые слова: national literary process, self-identity and mentality of Russian poetry, civil poetry, lyrics, historical cycles, historical declines and rises, concepts of progressivism in literature, art for art only and ahistoric character of poets and poetry. <...> The Year of Literature in Russia does not only set the trend of starting educating journeys in the sacred treasury of the Russian classical literature. <...> It invites us to think over traditions and paradoxes in the national literature process. <...> More so as in 2015 we celebrated a whole series of anniversaries of the classical poets, such as Ivan Dmitriev, Alexander Griboyedov, Kondraty Ryleyev, Afanasy Fet, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Velimir Khlebnikov, Sergey Yesenin, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Tvardovsky, Joseph Brodsky and many others. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: o.a.karlova@yandex.ru # 358 # the “poetic tree” of Russia. <...> In the 18th century Russian “mono literature” changed to author poetic palette, which was partly taken from abroad, partly formed by the enthusiasts of the Russian Enlightenment, partly grown by the folklore studying. <...> But by the end of the century there was already even the pleiad of the authors, whose names were well-known in the literature horizon due to their peculiar lyrical sound and choice of topics. <...> In this very period it formed its own consciousness, specifi cs of its attitude to the Russian history, to the power in Russia, and to Russia itself. <...> The Mindset of Russian <...>