"Pochvala komaru" Derzhavina: intertekstual'nost' i avtotematichnost'

The article is an in depth analysis of G. Derzhavin's ode "In Praise of the Mosquito" (1807), published posthumously and often neglected by scholars. It is one of the three odes the author wrote in that year, in the "burlesque" genre, which, on closer inspection, reveals a complex structure, derived from his peculiar and sophisticated idea of poetry.