{"title":"Lesya Ukrainka’s Play “Woman Possessed” and its Critical Interpretations","authors":"Viktor I. Humeniuk","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-268-284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-268-284","url":null,"abstract":"Outstanding Ukrainian writer of the early modernism epoch Lesya Ukrayinka (Larysa Petrivna Kosach, when married — Kvitka, 1871–1913) got a widespread acknowledgement first of all as a lyrical poetess, however it was her turn to the drama creation that determined her leading artistic searches and achievements. She experimented in the sphere of prosaic psychological plays (“Blue Rose”, “Farewell”), poetry plays, where the antique and romance traditions are actualized (“Iphigenia in Tauris”, “The Sculptor”) and finally came to the modernistic poetic drama. The play, which became the first dramatic masterpiece of the writer, according to many scientists, came to be the dramatic poem “Woman Possessed”. Here the Gospel images and motifs are brought to the circle of the up-to-date spiritual searches and unexpected interpretations. Artistically tackling the issue of love to humanity and love to the particular human, Lesya Ukrainka emphasizes its complication and versatility without any simple categorical conclusions. Although further creative searches of the authoress did include experiments, they basically followed the mould, determined by the “Woman Possessed”, within the system of poetic intellectual drama as a new-romantic example. The dominant style of the “Woman Possessed” and many other plays of authoress is the intellectual abundance. The interaction between ideological characters serves as the main mean of artistic intellectualism, unimaginable without the description of their complicity, without the deep psychologism. The ideology of the character (psychologically grounded temper’s dependence on the idea, its unity with the idea) relates to a mythological and symbolic interpretation of the empiric reality, its poetic transformation, connected with the unique imaginative spectacularity.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135710864","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":"Traditional Village Wedding Bedroom as a Component of Folk Culture (Ethnolingustic View)","authors":"L. V. Nedostupova","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-249-265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-249-265","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents an ethnolinguistic view of one of the components of the family cycle of rural folk culture. The purpose of this paper is to represent the long-term preparation and components of a wedding dowry, which was considered traditional at the beginning and middle of the 20th century in the village of Vysokoye Talovsky District, Voronezh Region, and to describe the corresponding vocabulary. The research included following methods: interviewing, observation, description and analysis. During the survey, it was found that everything related to the girl's village property reflects the original views and attitudes of the local residents of their time. They prove a certain conservatism of the values of the wedding ceremony of the last century. The scientific essay shows in detail the integral parts of the inheritance to be transferred to the marrying woman: furniture, interior items, bedding, clothes and shoes. The composition of the dialect is represented by common, outdated, colloquial, vernacular and dialectal lexemes. The novelty of the research owes to the fact that it describes for the first time a peculiar set of the bride's dowry in a small village society, which has no analogue distribution in nearby settlements. The practical significance of the study is that it introduces interesting ethnographic and dialectal materials demonstrating tradition in its original manifestation in the Russian outback.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74010787","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":"K. I. Chukovsky`s Nekrasov Questionnaire and D.S. Merezhkovsky","authors":"E. A. Andrushchenko","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-174-185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-67-174-185","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines D.S. Merezhkovsky’s responses to the famous Nekrasov questionnaire by K.I. Chukovsky, who presented it to his contemporaries by publishing some of the responses in “Chronicle of the Writers` club” (1921). In the preface he pointed out the modernists’ decisive role in reviving the poet’s legacy during the 20th century. In the second (1926) and third (1930) editions Chukovsky changed the list of surveyed poets, which suggests that as a publisher he intended to reflect the new literary hierarchy. In his three publications of the Nekrasov questionnaire he justified his decisions by the views he assumed while working with the material and by the current sociocultural situation. The paper focuses on the handwritten draft of D.S. Merezhkovsky’s responses (1919), which appeared partly in the first edition and were only fully published in 1988. Merezhkovsky was more outspoken than before in his judgement of Nekrasov’s poems about the people, suspecting poet`s speculation on this subject. He also exposed his true attitude to the “feminine” and “masculine” streams of the Russian culture. His responses to Chukovsky deconstructed the artificial concept that he had established in his works “Two mysteries of Russian poetry” and “The poet of eternal femininity”. His intuitively delicate and convincing definition of the currents of Russian culture ran into a contradiction with Nekrasov that emerged in his response. In truth he regarded Nekrasov as a figure of the “masculine” stream of culture, which is a driving, active, rather than a contemplative and passive creative element.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83325817","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":"Expressionist Traditions in the Works of Contemporary Artists of Russia and Former Union Republics","authors":"E. Radaeva","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-284-299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-284-299","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes the influence of the expressionist method on the painting of contemporary artists in Russia, as well as (to a greater or lesser extent) Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan. The exhibitions of recent years, thematic publics on art (on social networks) came to be the study`s initial material, then we are talking selectively about the work of individual authors. The research allowed for concluding: in modern fine arts, expressionism is distinguished by its unconditional “vitality” and the ability to assimilate with new trends; the “handwriting” of modern “expressionists” is characterized by the constant absence of chiaroscuro, often — the pretentiousness of the color scale; the theme of the spirit stifling in the gripe of the City, and the spirit of protest, pouring out into feminism or rejection of civilization (bourgeois / market), sometimes — aestheticization of the ugly, motifs of death and decay, sometimes — primitivism, childishness, gravitation towards the poster technique. However, today we are dealing with a “softened” version of expressionism: not always a pessimistic view of the artist's world, not always based on a pronounced rebellious beginning.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87871750","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":"Vexilloids in the socio-cultural sphere of Russia and Britain","authors":"Ekaterina V. Sklizkova","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2022-64-87-96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-64-87-96","url":null,"abstract":"State symbols are under the jurisdiction of heraldry and vexillology, applied historical disciplines. Being self-contained, vexillology has much in common with heraldry. Banner and coat of arms coincide in functions, being used as means of identification and manifestation of self. Flags are a very specific sign system and one of the most dynamic. They reflect changes in socio-cultural life of the nation and temporal characteristics, assist in attribution and investigation of cultural phenomena. As far as function is concerned the banner unites people according to some criterion and assimilates them into some social institution. Flags and coat of arms are inherently interconnected, though not all the banners are heraldic. Heraldic flags are divided into several types, different in form and size. Neither Russian nor European standards have strict rules of composition; both were very varied. As for Russia the flag has always been a very fluid issue. On the one hand that aspect of symbols has been disregarded and never followed a strict order, on the other, if and when banner is beheld, it becomes the object of worship and heated argument.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91352751","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 image of The Holy blessed prince Alexander Nevsky in Russian painting and printed schedule of the first half of the 20th century","authors":"Tatyana V. Belko, E. Y. Kuznetsova","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-316-331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-316-331","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims to study artistic interpretations of the image of the Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky in the Russian visual arts of the first half of the 20th century. Being the patron Saint of the Imperial family Prince Alexander Nevsky becomes one of the Central heroes of the fine arts of the 19th century — temples are actively built in honor of the Saint, monumental paintings are created that popularize him as a Saint, warrior and hero. First half of 20th century — the time of the “revolution” in art, the time of searching for new heroes and methods of creating objects of fine art, and, of course, the time of political events on a global scale. The study focuses on the works of fine art from the point of view of the influence of artistic “isms” and political events on ideological and graphic rethinking of the image of Alexander Nevsky in Russian monumental painting and, actively developing at that time, printed graphics — poster and postcard. The authors examine the works of artists of the Russian style, avant-garde, social realism, define ideological message of the works, and use a selected set of materials to trace the trend of evolution of the image from a Saint to a political leader.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88028280","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":"Lexical Semantic Field of Verbalizers of the Concept “Horse/Mare”: General Cultural and Regional Specifics","authors":"Lidiya A. Isayeva, Tatiana A. Yepatko","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2022-65-221-233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-65-221-233","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of study is to reveal the common linguocultural character and regional peculiarities of the concept “horse” by analyzing the structure and content of the semantic field of this concept`s verbalizers. The novelty of the research is due to the fact that we have used the dictionaries of local dialects of the Kuban region as a source of lexical items — verbalizers of the semantic field of the concept “horse”. The results obtained show that the general cultural concept “horse” is one of the significant concepts in a retrospective picture of the world of the Russian people. For native speakers, horse was mainly a domestic animal — used for field work or transportation — and, therefore, an emotionally and materially valuable object. At the language level, we could reveal the regional specific character of the concept “horse”. For the Kuban Cossacks a horse was a charger. The charger was a symbol of the military character of Cossacks as the service class whose main duty was to stand guard over the state borders of Russia. The value constituent of the concept was even more significant than in the all-Russian language picture of the world — a horse was of great importance in a Cossack’s life and indicated a high social status.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73446707","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}
Valerii S. Belgorodsky, Maria G. Kotovskaya, Elina G. Shvets
{"title":"Sociology of Everyday Life: Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 through the Eyes of Artists","authors":"Valerii S. Belgorodsky, Maria G. Kotovskaya, Elina G. Shvets","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2022-65-279-296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-65-279-296","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the place and role of the work of artists at the headquarters of the armies and in the media during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878. Sketches and detailed sketches were necessary as visual documents for reports in the military department, for publication in the Russian periodical press and for personal use of high-ranking officials of the belligerent army. With the beginning of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, drawings and sketches for the media were sent to the editorial offices of the capital's newspapers by writers, reporters and artists who served under conscription or were in the active army. The paper deals with a number of aspects of the social life of artists at the headquarters of the armies and in the location of the Russian troops. The research drew upon sources and materials of a sociological, historical and fine arts nature on the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878. The authors of the paper come up with a reasoned hypothesis about conceptual change towards the issue of admission of the media to the theater of military operations. The conclusions of the study include highlighting that it was exactly the verbal and visual content of materials about the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, contributed by artists, journalists, writers, that raised patriotic sentiments in Russia.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77552319","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":"Musical folklorism in the works of A. Nizhnik: modern forms of the actualization of folklore","authors":"E. Kaminskaya","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-309-315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-309-315","url":null,"abstract":"The interaction of folk and professional culture is widely manifested in modern times. One of the indicative phenomena of such interaction is a musical folklorism. It is refracted in various ways in the work of each composer. The focus of the national musical culture on the refraction of folklore traditions has been established since the 19th century, when the authentic material was processed following the author's artistic intent. That said modern musical culture shows that, despite active metamorphoses of the musical language, often far from the traditional sound, the musical folklorism manifests itself quite actively. That is why it is so important to turn in terms of the research on musical culture to those works in which the specificity of composer creativity is clearly displayed and modern sounds and the authentic folklore texts intertwine. One of these works was the orchestral composition of the contemporary composer Artem Alexandrovich Nizhnik “Karagody of Spring”. It reflects basic principles of working with a folklore source, first of all citation, transformation of the folklore motives, stylization as folklore (an essay “in the spirit of”). All this enriches the author's creative method with new original ideas. The composer's work is an example of a sensitive approach and careful attitude towards folklore, professional work with authentic texts. For the folklore itself it implies a live sound in modern concert practices as one of the forms of its actualization.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76218412","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":"Specific Ways of Ironic Interpretation of Anthroponyms in Aphorisms","authors":"O. Tverdokhleb","doi":"10.37816/2073-9567-2022-65-234-246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-65-234-246","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims to describe the ways of interpreting anthroponyms in aphorisms constructed as a definition and similar in structure to a dictionary article. The study reveals that in aphorisms-definitions, frequency anthroponyms (individual proper names), which are not included in the dictionaries of explanatory dictionaries, are used as heading units. A large illustrative material shows that within the explanatory part of the aphoristic definitions for the characteristic of anthroponyms, non-traditional ways of interpretation for lexicography are actively used. The author suggests a classification of methods of naive interpretations of anthroponyms depending on the semantics of the main word in the explanatory part: a) false-hieronymic; b) evaluative; c) hyponymic; d) repetitive-distinctive; e) formal-signal. The compositional and syntactic organization of the explanatory part is complicated by detailed definitions, which are expressed by different grammatical means; they are located in pre-and post-position in relation to the main word of the explanatory part; they add additional meaning, emotional tension and reflect the author's position. The results obtained may be of interest to specialists dealing with the issues of aphorism, onomastics and lexicography.","PeriodicalId":41255,"journal":{"name":"Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur-Bulletin of Slavic Cultures-Scientific and Informational Journal","volume":"435 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83612050","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}