The article is an analysis of several interpretations of one of the key poems in Mandelstam's poetry of the 1920s, "For Some the Winter Means Arak and Blue-Eyed Sparkling Punches..." (1922). The purpose of the author is to identify and analyze the most problematic issues of this lyrical text and its interpretations in the scientific literature. The lyrical plot is based on the clash of different life positions of the conspirators and the protagonist. The logical and syntactic structure of the poem is intricately connected with the figurative structure.
