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cleared of vanity and vices of a civilization in the northern world, he is before the eyes of the God here, - where the God manifests himself in Nature. Sluchevsky creates the spiritual Universe, where the natural environment is shown as congenial to the God and the Man. The poet uses the concepts of theogony, antic drama and epic, fairy tale, life and death, the God and the Man, when he represents the image of the Kola North. Sluchevsky enlarges his vision of life, and his poetic voice and becomes a painter depicting granite architecture of huge space, palette of northern paints, “dense blue of horizon, dark emerald of a wave, violet shades of the midnight sun”. He is undoubtedly a pantheist, and in one of the best poems represents the universal sense of the Northern world: “Here eternity in an aura of severe beauty has laid down for the rest and breathes on the open space”. MIKHAIL PRISHVIN (1873-1954) Michael Prishvin - the remarkable Russian writer - has visited the Kola North, or so-called Russian Lapland, twice, in 1907 and in 1933. He passed through the Kola Peninsula, lived in the Lappish settlement in the tundra, fished with the Pomors. The North fascinated him, and in 1908 he published the book of stories and northern impressions “Following the Magic Kolobok”. The Kolo- bok - is an artful character of a Russian fairy tale, the round roll, that avoids and escapes from people and animals into the wood. This image isn’t casual for the author, who is led by some fantastic force towards a mysterious adventures. “The book of Prishvin has special lyrical intonation, poetic mood in the descrip tion of the fantastic landscapes of the North and the touching relation to the na tives of tundra. Readers are attracted by cheerful tone, optimism, novelty of art style”, - writes professor Panteleeva about this book. As well as Jack London does, the writer feels uniqueness, mysteriousness of the Northern Nature: “The bright transparency and silence”, “transparent easy weightless water, cold as ice”, “day not real, but crystal”, “mysterious sunny night”, “the sun sparkling too brightly, but cold and sharply”. The writer marks clearness of lines, freshness of paints, cold - almost cosmic - light of the north ern world. Lyrical hero of Prishvin, as well as the hero of Sluchevsky, observes changes of natural forms, when vast spaces of rocks reminds the silent hardened ocean, and ocean looks like solid glass. The illusion and a reality mix up in his book, the author’s imagination draws the fantastic world: “Possibly such day was after the Flood, when water has only started to leave. The water fills all sinful earth... Our ark slides in si lence. The feeling of unreality is bom from the perception of the bright transpar ency and silence... The time of magic images in the country of the midnight sun approaches. What I see now - all is a dream. Animals have come out of woods, fishes from the water. Moon has leaned on a birch. Strings of kantele have rung 112