There is analyzed the poem by A.S. Pushkin “Autumn” from the point of implementation of the plot scheme of the cosmogonic myth; suggested to consider it as the “central myth” of Pushkin’s whole artistic system that determine the model of the poet’s lyric selfdetermination.

There is considered one of the metaplots of A.S.Pushkins creative work poet VS monarch and its various realizations in the text of the historical tragedy Boris Goduniv: 1) true poet VS true monarch, 2) true poet VS self-constituted monarch, 3) self-constituted poet VS self-constituted monarch.