Reconstruction of the «Armenian» Text in the Russian Poetry of the XX Century (Computer Research Experience)

The article describes a study on the reconstruction of the so-called «Armenian » text in Russian poetry. Russian folklore and ancient Russian literature have already mentioned Armenian literary portrait that was finally formed in Russian literature only in the ХХ century, after the tragic events in the history of Armenia in 1915. Through applying the software complex «Hypertext search for companion-words in author's texts» to the representative corpus of the Russian language poems on the Armenian theme (65 works of different poets), lexemes marking the minimal themes of the «Armenian» text have been identified. These lexemes act as dominant components of the «Armenian» lexical combinations presented in the poems of Russian poets («Ararat», «Yerevan», «mountain», «sky», «ground», «blood», «heart», «soul», «flame», «eternal») and optional ones («hostile», «to rot», «myopic», «book», «child», «Komitas», etc.). The common lexical combinations will allow the authors to establish intertextual links, which form the basis of the «Armenian» text in Russian poetry. However, in most cases poems have no intertextual links that could signal the influence of one text on another. The coincidence of vocabulary in the texts is usually explained by geographical and historical realities, as well as a poetic tradition.