In the article on the material of works of Russian poets who wrote about Iran / Persia ("Persian motives" by SA Esenin, "Death of Vazir-Mukhtar" by YN Tynyanov, the fundamental work of Iranian colleagues Marzieh Yahyapour and Janollah Karimi-Motahhar "Saadi and Russian poets"), the image of this country is recreated, which is the goal of linguoimagological research. On the one hand, there is a deep immersion in the classical poetry of medieval Persia (the work and personalities of Saadi,

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... i, Omar Khayyam, Hafez), on the other hand, masterpieces of Russian poetry have been created over the course of two centuries (from A.S. Pushkin to S.A.). In our country, classical Persian poetry has been known since the 19th century. Getting to know her and Persia, Russian poets showed themselves as educated, erudite, benevolent and sensitive to creativity. None of them have been to Persia, but the image of the country through the prism of poetry has formed a multifaceted, interesting and mysterious.