Transformations of the moon image in Russian translations of Su Shi’s poetry: history and characteristics of perception

This article discusses the problems of literary translation from Chinese into Russian based on the poems of Su Shi. The image of the moon in the poet's work has a special symbolic meaning. The moon in Chinese classical poetry carries a deep cultural semantic load, reflects a rich spectrum of human feelings, and it has vivid imagery and artistic expressiveness in Su Shi poetry, in this regard, the study of strategies for translating the image of the moon seems relevant. The article also analyzes the strategies of translation of Su Shi's poems by such translators as I.S. Golubev, V.E. Vitkovsky, M.I. Basmanov, S.A. Toroptsev.