In 2021, The Road to Pushkin, a book of poems by A.M. Gorodnitsky was published which included 72 poems. The creative history of this publication lasts about 60 years: the earliest poem Don't get married, poets was written in 1963, and the recent texts were created during the forced isolation of 2020 due to the spread of COVID-19. The article is devoted to the study of the poetics of the poem My Pushkin (2018), which opens the book The Road to Pushkin. On the basis of intertextual analysis, the peculiarity of allusions to Pushkin's texts and memoirs of contemporaries is restored; the role of portraits and monuments to the poet included in the aesthetic myth of A.M. Gorodnitsky is investigated. Special attention is paid to the semantics of the rhythmic organization of the text written in 6- and 5-stop iambic. In the poem My Pushkin there appears a whole conglomerate of meanings focused on dialogue with the Pushkin myth of Russian culture (-my Pushkin?, -Pushkin is our everything?, -Merry Pushkin?, -The Sun of Russian poetry?, etc.). The lyrical hero coexists as if in two dimensions: living his life he focuses on the life of Pushkin and those cultural codes that remind of the Poet of the XIX century. Pushkin's texts, the poet's environment, his biography, portraits and monuments, the geography of travels and iconic Pushkin places - all this becomes the basis of intertextual interactions and forms the author's personally experienced Pushkiniana.
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