Two centuries of the Russian classics Two centuries of the Russian classics 2686-7494 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2025-7-2-62-79 Research Article Articles Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Celestial Bodies in V. A. Zhukovsky’s Pavlovsky Poems Potashova Ksenia A. red@rusklassika.ru 25 06 2025 7 2 62 79 V. A. Zhukovsky cosmological imagery lunar landscape worldview ontology visualization mechanisms Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The purpose of the article was to identify the features of  V. A. Zhukovsky’s poetic cosmology, presented in all its diversity in the cycle of Pavlovsky Poems (1819). The article reconstructs the romantic understanding of the structure of the universe established in Zhukovsky’s poetry and its new poetic comprehension. It examines the poetics, aesthetics, and ontology of the image of the moon as a poetic constant of Zhukovsky’s meditative lyrics. 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