Аннотация:The article deals with the concept of
“apophaticism” which is relevant not only for theology but also
for philosophical and philological knowledge. The linguists are
interested in apophaticism of the language, which primarily
refer to vocabulary. During the last decades of hermeneutics
development, the literary scholars also actively referred to
apophatic tradition. The need to develop the idea of Russian
poetry as an apophatic one is long overdue and it requires new
approaches and works. The object of this article is the Soviet
times and the thaw period with its binary formations; and the
song “Moscow Nights” by M. Matusovsky is in the center of
linguistic and philosophical research. Much attention is paid to
text fragments with verbal negation.