Pushkin' Tradition of Analysing Gender Relations

The article reveals the specificity of Pushkin's artistic analysis of gender relations. “Duty bequeathed from God” – it is these words of Pimen that Pushkin referred to as the mission of the poet in Russian culture. Thus he gave a model for the development of all spiritual culture, including social sciences. The role of Pushkin's tradition in the formation of the science of gender relations is revealed. It is for Pushkin that special attention to the problems of male-female relations is characteristic. In this regard, the interrelation of studies of gender and private life is analyzed. The analysis of Pushkin's tradition of studying gender relations leads the author of the article to the conclusion that in Russian society they exist as a contradictory phenomenon. The development of Pushkin's approach to the analysis of gender by Pushkin himself is examined. The key to revealing the contradictory nature of gender in Pushkin is the human home. Contradictions of gender are demonstrated in the article by analyzing a number of examples from Pushkin's heritage by analyzing the parody of gender. Examples from the works of A. Blok and M. Gorky, who developed Pushkin's tradition. In the view of the totality of the problems considered, the research required a dialectical and interdisciplinary approach.