“The Discourses of Love”: Observations Regarding Charles Baudelaire in the Context of Brjusov's and Blok's Vision of the “Urban Woman”

The paper deals with some aspects of the “discourse of love” in Russian poetry of the Silver Age, in particular with regard to the description of the “urban woman”. There seem to be some clear parallels between the methods employed for this imaginary figure as developed by the Russian Symbolists Blok and Brjusov and their French predecessor Baudelaire.