Vitaly V. Goncharov This article analyzes the use of color in the poetic Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky as a symbolic Department of State and International Law of the Kuban State Agrarian University Named after I. T. Trubilin, 350004, actualization of the most important aspects of Krasnodar, Kalinina Street, 13, Russian Federation. both the reality surrounding the poet and the ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3029-4727 world of his inner experiences. E-mail: [email protected] Marina R. Zheltukhina Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of the English Philology, Scientific Research Laboratory “Discourse Linguistics” of the Institute of Foreign Languages, Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University, 400066, Volgograd, The work of Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky - Lenin Ave, 27, Russian Federation. one of the brightest and most famous Russian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7680-4003 poets of the twentieth century - is the object of E-mail: [email protected] close research in numerous works of philologists, Gennady G. Slyshkin historians, linguists, in particular: V. Shevchenko Dr. of Philology, professor, Head of the Departament of (2012, p. 33-37); S. Zainab (2015, p. 149-151); Yu. Law Methodology and Legal Communication, Law Institute, Russian University of Transport, 9b9 Obrazcova Str., Moscow Mineralova (2005, p. 3-16); A. Gorbachev (2010, 127994, Russian Federation. p. 17-27); M. Steinberg (2018, p. 83-91); O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8121-0250 Kultysheva (2010, p. 57-62); O. Kuzovleva (2010, E-mail: [email protected] p. 48-56). The constant relevance of the study of Zaineta R. Khachmafova Mayakovsky's literary poetic heritage is facilitated Dr.Sc. (Phylology), Professor, Head of the German Philology by the individual inimitable style of the author's Department, Adyghe State University, 385000, Maikop, Pervomayskaya Street, 208, Russian Federation. poetic works, and the poet's subtle understanding of the rapidly changing events of the turbulent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4645-0683 E-mail: [email protected] early twentieth century, a wide range of his lyrical Susanna R. Makerova experiences. However, it seems that separate researches on the use of the color palette in the Dr.Sc. (Phylology), Professor, Head of the English Philology Department, Adyghe State University, 385000, Maikop, poetic works of Vladimir Mayakovsky are not Pervomayskaya Street, 208, Russian Federation. enough, although the symbolism of color is often ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1604-0245 and consistently used by the poet both in his early E-mail: [email protected] Received in: Approved in: works and in the poetry of the Soviet period of his 2021-04-10 2021-05-11 work. This is the reason for the choice of the DOI: https://doi.org/10.24115/S2446-622020217Extra-B887p.88-96 research topic by the authors of this article. This article in the process of cognition of state-legal phenomena were used: a) General scientific methods (formal-logical, systemic, structural-functional, concrete-historical); b) General logical methods of theoretical analysis (analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison, abstraction, analogy, modeling, etc.); c) private scientific methods (technical and legal analysis, specification, interpretation, etc.) (KHACHMAFOVA et al. 2015, p. 115-120; OLYANITCH et al. 2020, p. 3-11; TAMERYAN et al. 2018, p. 377-384; ZHELTUKHINA et al. 2020, p. 104-115; GONCHAROV et al, 2020a, p. 78-90; GONCHAROV et al., 2020b, p. 93-106; GONCHAROV et al., 2021, p. 401-409). Despite the fact that more than 90 years have passed since the death of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, his poetic talent is recognized and revered by a huge number of people in many countries of the world. At the same time, despite numerous attempts to classify the poetic works of Vladimir Mayakovsky in some conditional framework, for example, to attribute him exclusively to the futurist poets, they somewhat simplify the assessment of the greatness of his creative heritage. Mayakovsky is great in his work, which is not limited to poetry. He is undoubtedly a talented publicist. In particular, his "My Discovery of America" (MAYAKOVSKY, 2021a) impresses with a clear, sober assessment of American reality, a scrupulous analysis of social relations in the country, the inner spiritual world of ordinary Americans. In addition to Laplage em Revista (International), vol.7, n. Extra B, May - Aug. 2021, p.88-96 ISSN: 2446-6220 Vitaly V. Goncharov; Marina R. Zheltukhina; Gennady G. Slyshkin; Zaineta R. Khachmafova; Susanna R. Makerova • 89 poetry, Mayakovsky brightly showed himself as a playwright, screenwriter, film director, film actor, artist, editor of the magazines "Left Front", "New Left Front". However, it was his poetic works that brought world fame to Vladimir Mayakovsky. In recent years, modern researchers have made an attempt to primitivize Vladimir Mayakovsky, (PLEKHANOVA, 2014, p. 72-83) ridiculing his love for the man of labor. He is accused of the fact that his poetic works were written to please the new Bolshevik regime, having an openly agitation and propaganda character. (KOZLENKOV, 2013, p. 116-119) Although, in our opinion, such an assessment is subjective. The poet foresaw a possible critical and even negative assessment of his work by some descendants, due to their political, class and social tastes and preferences. Therefore, in a number of his works, he himself entered into an intertemporal dialogue with readers of the future. In particular, in" In full voice", Mayakovsky writes: « My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days’ petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, will inquire about me too. And, possibly, your scholars will declare, with their erudition overwhelming a swarm of problems; once there lived a certain champion of boiled water, and inveterate enemy of raw water. Professor, take off your bicycle glasses! I myself will expound those times and myself». (MAYAKOVSKY, 2021j, p. 1-2). The analysis of a number of works by Vladimir Mayakovsky (both the pre-revolutionary period of his work and the Soviet period) shows the entire path of his formation as a proletarian writer. (MAYAKOVSKY, 2021h; 2021i; 2021j) In the above-mentioned poem "The Cloud in the Pants", he summarizes the main reason why his fate and his work are inextricably linked with the interests of the working people, their hopes, aspirations, experiences, achievements and dreams: «The enemy and days of hunger of the massed working class ordered us is my enemy too to march inveterate and of long standing. under the red flag». (MAYAKOVSKY, 2021j, p. Years of trial 10). Laplage em Revista (International), vol.7, n. Extra B, May - Aug. 2021, p.88-96 ISSN: 2446-6220 • 90 Semantic of color in the poetics of Vladimir Mayakovsky Thus, Vladimir Mayakovsky appears before us at the end of his literary work as a proletarian writer, called upon by his literary talent and creativity, on the one hand, to describe the social reality surrounding him, justly castigating the vices and shortcomings of Soviet society, and on the other hand, as an agitator , a propagandist, a futurist of those goals and tasks that had to be achieved and realized by the working people in the name of the bright ideals of social justice, equality, brotherhood, which the poet himself adhered to. However, it should be noted that the analysis of the poetic works of Vladimir Mayakovsky shows the fact that social injustice, wars, and the suffering of the common people were always alien to him. (MAYAKOVSKY, 2021d; 2021g). It was the poet's emotional sensitivity to the sufferings and aspirations of the people, the fate of the country, its complex historical vicissitudes of the early 20th century, as well as Vladimir Mayakovsky's penchant for love experiences, that largely determined the means of expressing his thoughts that he used in his poetic work. The most important place in the poetics of Vladimir Mayakovsky is occupied by the use of the semantics of color as a way of expressing in the text the shades of the poet's perception of the surrounding reality and his own attitude to it. The poet's use of various colors, often in a metaphorical sense, and also as an hyperbolization of the perception of the surrounding reality and his sensual comprehension of it, we can observe both in the early works of Vladimir Mayakovsky, relating to his pre-revolutionary work, and in the later poetic works of the Soviet post-revolutionary period his life. However, the color palette used by the author is not the same in relation to individual historical periods of his life and work. On the one hand, its changes are largely coherent with the rapidly changing historical events in Russia: The First World War; The Great October Revolution of 1917; the civil war of 1918-1922; the period of the birth and flowering of the new economic policy in 1921- 1930 (up to the death of the author in 1930). On the other hand, the richness and peculiarities of the color palette used by the poet were largely influenced by the poet's personal sensory experiences: his numerous love stories; protracted love experiences with Lilia Brick; certain failures in building a family and personal happiness in the traditional sense (creating a family, having and raising children, etc.). Therefore, conditionally, the use of color semantics by Vladimir Mayakovsky in his poetic works can be conditionally divided into several historical periods: 1. Stage of his pre-war works (1912-1914). (BURLIUK et al., 2021) 2. The pre-revolutionary stage of his work (1914-1917). (MAYAKOVSKY, 2021b; 2021с) 3. The stage of his work in the stormy year of two revolutions of 1917 - the February bourgeois and the October socialist (February-November 1917). (MAYAKOVSKY, 2021k) 4. The stage of his work during the Civil War (1918-1922).