Gerasimova Svetlana Valentinovna

Gerasimova Svetlana Valentinovna

Dec., 2025

service, creativity, conciliarity, mother, father, grandmother, family contract.

In his verses, Andrey Golov mentions family values nine times. The most sublime references to family are in the poems «Family Portrait» and «First Christians». The understanding of the concept of family in the works by Andrey Golov changes, making the way from a humorous and ironic level of its perception as a purely earthly phenomenon to an understanding of the spiritual significance of the family as a sphere of creative realization of the individual in his ability to love and sacrificial service to his neighbors. In the poet’s perception, the individual is inseparable from conciliarity, participation in which a person achieves through the everyday experience of life in a family. The concept of family in the poet’s work is based on his real experience. The poet’s creative self-realization was possible only due to the sacrificial service to him of all family members. The poet’s collected works are the result of a family contract. Each family member made his contribution, creating a material and spiritual basis for his creativity. Thanks to his grandmother, he acquired a sense of language. His father helped to collect books, stamps, designed a stroller for walks around Moscow, which he himself organized. His mother's hospitality expanded his social circle.

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