Plot for mystery: Parsifal Chitee-gold cockerel

An unknown, philological story of the opera unfolds in the monograph. Its central event is the birth of a Christian mystery at the confluence of the opera tradition and philological science, when Wagner"s experience in Parsifal received the only continuation in the Kitege of Rimsky -Korsakov and the next ridiculous mystery of the Golden Cockerel. The tied knot is the source of the formation of the culture of the modernism of the turn of the XIX -XX centuries. As part of the problem, a tense Russian -German dialogue, epoch -making plots about St. Grail, City Kitezh and Golden Cockerel, their subsequent fate in poetry and philosophical thought, as well as the innovative direction in philology are Russian historical poetics, responsible for international cultural communication are studied. , and for the updating of legendary plots by means of opera art.
Heroes of the book - R. Wagner and F. Nietzsche, N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov and his librettist V.I. Velsky, Academician A.N. Veselovsky. As well as Pushkin, Yesenin, Vl. Solovyov, Vyach. Ivanov, Akhmatova, A. Bely, Durylin and others