REVIEW OF THE BOOK: LUWEI ZOU, MIKHAILOVA M.V. THE FEMALE LINE IN RUSSIAN POETRY: BEFORE AND AFTER A.A. AKHMATOVA. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, 2023. 204 p.

The review considers a monograph that is devoted to the study of Russian lyrics of the 19th and early 20th centuries, represented by the female names of A. Akhmatova, E. Rostopchina, M. Lokhvitskaya, L. Kopylova, N. Lvova, V. Inber. The chronological principle of understanding the forms of psychologism “before and after Akhmatova” divided the book into three chapters. They gradually reveal the origins and specifics of Akhmatova’s psychologism, analyze her discoveries in creating a female image in the first half of the 1910s and the creative perception of Akhmatova’s lyrics by contemporary poetesses. The appendix publishes a review “Perception of the Personality of A.A. Akhmatova and Her Work in China”. Comparative-typological, cultural-historical and gender approaches are effective in the study of love lyrics, the authors actively use a comparative analysis of poems. The depth of the study of the problem of psychologism in the lyrical work and the value of the overall result, which revealed the peculiarities of the development of female poetry at the beginning of the 20th century, are noted.