{"title":"Upon the Authorship of “Travel to Georgia”","authors":"V. I. Simankov","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2021-3-3-124-141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2021-3-3-124-141","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper deals with the “Travel to Georgia”, an anonymous article published in the “Moscow Telegraph” for 1833, and speculates upon its probable authorship. “Travel to Georgia” was unanimously perceived as a “chauvinistic article”, and the problem of its authorship has been left out of consideration. The paper also deals with the “Remarks on the ‘Travel to Georgia’, an article lately published in one of the Moscow magazines”, erroneously attributed to Marlinsky (A. A. Bestuzhev). Drawing on a number of letters and other documentary sources, the author makes it possible for the reader to conduct his or her own private investigation. All relevant extracts and fragments in the article are chronologically arranged and provided with non-judgmental commentary. The study makes it possible to conclude that “Travel to Georgia” may be attributed to Pavel Kamensky.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"262 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127338347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Story Bursa by I. G. Shadrin: Sources and Prototypes","authors":"Nikolai V. Solodov","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2021-3-3-172-189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2021-3-3-172-189","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the analysis of the story Bursa by Ilariy Shadrin. The author reveals historical circumstances that actually took place and true descriptions of the persons who served as prototypes of the story heroes. Based on the text, involving a wide range of additional sources, including archival, the picture of the daily life of the Vologda Seminary is reconstructed, biographical portraits of teachers and students are outlined. The author notes that the artistic images created by Ilariy Shadrin are not historically accurate portraits and objective characteristics of real persons. It is stated that the story “Bursa” contains few precise indications of the dates. Its undoubted value lies in the scattering of observations, particulars, everyday details captured by the author. It is concrete living sketches, not journalistic polemical arguments, that constitute the main value of Ilariy Shadrin’s work. An analytical study of the artistic world of the story and other sources allows the author to conclude that the writer was excessively immersed in his own experiences, in thinking over the circumstances and the role of his own person in them.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125088174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Data on the Environment of N. S. Leskov in the Orel Province","authors":"Elena N. Ashikhmina","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2022-4-2-110-133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2022-4-2-110-133","url":null,"abstract":"The article reveals unknown pages of the biography of the writer N. S. Leskov’s father — S. D. Leskov, as well as the Strakhov family, close acquaintances of the Leskovs. The article contains biographies of the prototypes of N. S. Leskov’s characters, his estate neighbors in the Kromsky district. For the first time, data are presented on the previously unknown possessions of the Leskov family in the Kromsky district of the Oryol province. After the departure of the Leskovs from the province, they still owned small plots of land that connected the family with their native lands. The author of the article analyzes numerous documents from the State Archives of the Orel Region, the General Land Survey of the Kromsky District of the Oryol Province, on the basis of which observations are made of relatives, acquaintances, estate neighbors of the Leskov family. The paper shows how life facts of different importance and scale were used and generalized by the writer, getting into his creative laboratory.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"2018 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114457690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Truth”: Biblical Allusions in N. S. Leskov’s Novella “The Vale”","authors":"A. Fedotova","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2022-4-2-134-149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2022-4-2-134-149","url":null,"abstract":"N. S. Leskov, Russian classic author of the second half of the 19th century, throughout his work actively turned to the Old and New Testaments, which was expressed in a significant number of biblical quotations and allusions in his works. Until now, there is no separate study on the functioning of biblical “text” in the writer’s prose. Within the framework of the proposed work, borrowings from the Old and New Testaments in one of Leskov’s last large-form works, the story, or, in the author’s definition, the “rhapsody” “The Vale,” are analyzed. The novelty of the study is determined by the fact that it identifies and interprets quotes and allusions from the Psalter, the prophetic books of Baruch and Isaiah, as well as the Gospel of John, used by the writer, which were not previously noticed in literary criticism. The article proves that Leskov’s biblical allusions are not disparate fragments of a “foreign” text, they function in a single semantic field of the work and form its subtext, help the writer convey to the reader the results of his moral and religious searches.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116838306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leo Tolstoy as a Singer of the Russian Empire","authors":"A. Gulin","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2022-4-2-18-41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2022-4-2-18-41","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the study of a unique literary phenomenon: the transformation of the subjective anti-state aspirations of the artist into images glorifying the Russian Empire in the work of Leo Tolstoy. The originality of Tolstoy’s poetic principles is largely determined by the unity of his personal religious faith and creative method, psychological in nature. The Russian Empire is considered by the author of the article as the highest expression of the ideals of the Third Rome, opposite to Tolstoy’s, which received their formalization in the organizing formula of S. S. Uvarov “Orthodoxy – Autocracy – Nationality.” It is proved that imperial insights and revolutionary paradoxes in the creative world of Tolstoy form an indissoluble unity, where paradox is always a necessary condition for insight, its tool, its driving force. On the material of the Sevastopol stories, the epic novel “War and Peace”, the novel “Anna Karenina” it is shown how the subjective epic nature of the writer’s works in contact with the material of Russian reality “grows” with objective meanings, acquiring the features of a truly national, imperial epic. Simultaneously with the research article, it is methodological in nature; the principles of a strictly authentic interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s heritage as a whole are formed in the work.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128570647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Phenomenon of the Epic Novel: A New Monograph on Russian Classical Literature","authors":"A. Fedotova","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2023-5-2-122-131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2023-5-2-122-131","url":null,"abstract":"Readers are invited to review a new collective monograph on the phenomenon of the epic novel, published under the scientific editorship of a DSc in Philology V. G. Andreeva (IWL RAS) and which is the result of the work of well-known specialists in Russian classics in Russia. Besides V. G. Andreeva, the authors of the monograph are A. V. Gulin, N. L. Ermolaeva, S. K. Kazakova, Yu. V. Lebedev, V. I. Melnik, N. G. Mikhnovets. The author of the review analyzes the structure of the monograph, emphasizes the breadth of coverage of the material, as well as an attractive for the reader and at the same time promising scientific approach to the issues under study. The monograph examines in detail the most significant novels of Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century. The seemingly heterogeneous literary material is comprehended from a single methodological point of view, and the term “epic novel” is the key theoretical concept for the monograph. The review characterizes the range of problems raised in the monograph, highlights the successful and non-trivial observations of the authors of the new book.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126794850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Mikhail Muravyov’s Poem The Painter (Based on Materials of Russian State Library and Institute of Russian Literature)","authors":"Aleksandr D. Ivinskiy","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2021-3-2-168-185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2021-3-2-168-185","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the textual reconstruction of the poem The Painter by M. N. Muravyov. It was published in “Academic News” in 1779. In the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library (Moscow), we have found the earliest manuscript of this work, which we date 1775. This variant differs greatly from the final one – both in terms of volume and style. In the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature (St. Petersburg), we found the second version of The Painter, written, as we claim, in 1778. It was stored with Muravyov’s letters to Dmitry Khvostov. Such close attention of the author to this poem could be explained by the fact that he expressed in it some crucial ideas about the nature of creativity and about the principles of interaction with the authorities. From our point of view, The Painter is one of Muravyov’s key texts, in which he acclaimed his loyalty to the cultural policy of Catherine II.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"47 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123806558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"F. M. Dostoevsky and A. N. Ostrovsky: To the Problem of Literary Sources of Characters and Collisions in the Drama “Without a Dowry”","authors":"N. Mokina","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2023-5-2-104-121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2023-5-2-104-121","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines parallels in plot and images between Ostrovsky’s drama “Without a Dowry” and Dostoevsky’s novel “Demons.” Ostrovsky’s remarks about Dostoevsky in the last years of his life reveal that he distanced himself from the creative principles of the author of “Demons.” However, gestures and remarks of the characters of “Without a Dowry,” such as Paratov, Vozhevatov, Larisa Ogudalova, as well as motifs and collisions connected with them allow us to suggest that while working on the drama, Ostrovsky was influenced by a “literary recall” of Dostoevsky’s novel “Demons” and its characters, namely Stavrogin, Petr Verkhovensky, Liza Tushina. The possible parallels between the characters in “Without a Dowry” and “Demons” are also indicated by their common biblical and literary prototypes: there are allusions to the Serpent-temtper, Hamlet, Prince Harry, Mephistopheles and Faust contained in the stories of Stavrogin and Paratov, allusions to the Serpent and Mephistopheles in the gestures and actions of Petr Verkhovensky and Vozhevatov, while allusions to Ophelia, Gretchen and Poor Liza can be found in the images of Liza Tushina and Larisa Ogudalova. Even despite the differences in the writers’ approaches, there are remarkable plot parallels between the two works, common components in the characters’ images, similar artistic techniques, which, in our opinion, are signs of a literary “dialogue” between the authors of “Demons” and “Without a Dowry.”","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126418852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Results of the XVIII Spring Tolstoy Readings","authors":"Sofianina A. Sterlikova","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2023-5-2-142-153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2023-5-2-142-153","url":null,"abstract":"The article summarizes and comprehends the most important and significant reports of the XVIII Spring Tolstoy Readings, which took place on May 23, 2023 at A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The unrelenting attention of modern scientists to Tolstoy’s heritage, to its contradictions, complexities and still unsolved mysteries of his artistic worlds is remarkable. The article gives the general composition of the participants in the readings, as well as the audience, and emphasizes the attention which is focused on various scientific problems that were voiced by the speakers, the academic nature of the past Tolstoy readings, the depth and significance of many speeches, the scrupulous work of researchers in studying various sources, such as literary texts, their editions and variants, journalism, letters, diaries and notes of Tolstoy.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130782716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Guide to the Holy Land by Hieromonk Nikodim. Genre Traditions and Features","authors":"Sofianina A. Sterlikova","doi":"10.22455/2686-7494-2022-4-2-82-95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2022-4-2-82-95","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents an analysis of the manuscript from the OR RSL collection “Guide of old Jerusalem and all its environs of Egyptian Palestine in 1867.” Hieromonk Nikodim, the author of the Guidebook, created a description of his pilgrimage to Palestine, certainly taking into account the literary and spiritual traditions that had formed by that time. For the first time, the monument is presented in the context of the genre formation history, which makes it possible to indicate, on one hand, its adherence to established rules and, on the other, its innovation. This is confirmed by examples of the beginning considered in the article with an explanation of the decision to describe the pilgrimage to the shrines of Palestine; the presence in the text of practical advice, especially relevant for Orthodox pilgrims of the second half of the 1860s. Particular emphasis is placed on the desire of Fr. Nikodim to see in the guide to the Holy Land spiritual guidance, spiritual accompaniment, with which a pilgrim from Russia visits holy places, worshiping them and remembering the events of Sacred history connected with them. The sacredness of the places of worship permeates the entire narrative of the “Guidebook... ,” it also explains the nature of the pilgrimage, the difference from a banal journey in search of adventure and external impressions.","PeriodicalId":359000,"journal":{"name":"Two centuries of the Russian classics","volume":"71 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133541547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}