The poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could
be read, heard, and, most important, seen in the two centuries in
which he lived. The Palladian villa he occupied, the British
service placed on the table before him, the English spinning
machine put to use on his estate, and even the optical devices,
such as the telescope, magic lantern, and camera obscura, which
populated his home: Tatiana Smoliarova restores Derzhavin's visual
environment through minute textual clues, inviting the reader to
consider how such impressions informed and shaped his thinking and
writing, countering the conservative, Russophile ideology he shared
in his later years. In examining the poetics, aesthetics, and
politics of Derzhavin's poems written in the early nineteenth
century, Three Metaphors for Life makes us see this period as a
chapter in the contradictory development of Russian modernity-at
once regressive and progressive, resistant to social reform,
insistent on a distinctly Russian historical destiny, yet
enthusiastically embracing technological and industrial innovations
and exploring new ways of thinking, seeing, and feeling.
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