The paper presents an interpretation of A. Dolgareva’s poem «The First is Twenty, the Second is Forty, Father and Son...». The subject of the work is the hermeneutic situations of the poem. The main goal is to reconstruct its implicit meanings. The novelty of the study is determined by the appeal to the linguahermeneutic interpretation of A. Dolgareva’s poem. The possibilities of the linguahermeneutic method are demonstrated, the main meanings of the poem are revealed. It is shown that A. Dolgareva can be called the successor of A. Akhmatova’s poetic mission.