Idyll, history, rationality: city images in “Real Journey to Germany in 1835” by Nikolay Gretsch
The article explores the images of the German cities, Lubeck and Hamburg, presented in Nikolay Gretsch’s travelogue “The real trip to Germany in 1835”. The author determines the link between the images of the two cities and the tradition of describing Germany as an idyllic place. This tradition was widespread in Russian literature at the end of the 18th ...
A synthesis of genres in Andrey Bolotov’s memoirs
... Bolotov’s memoirs in terms of their genre peculiarity. Text analysis shows that, when writing his memoirs, Bolotov used techniques borrowed from across various genres with which he was well acquainted. Those were the novel, the epistolary genre, the travelogue, the historical essay, etc. In the broad context of Bolotov’s works, the article shows that all those elements were not combined mechanically. A well-read and stylistically sensitive author, he was guided by an intuitive sense of appropriateness ...
“The point of departure of peoples determines their fate”: Peter Chaadaev and Alexis de Tocqueville
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Etkind, A. M., 2013. Vnutrennyaya kolonizatsiya. Imperskii opyt Rossii [Internal colonization. Imperial experience of Russia]. Translated by V. Makarov. Moscow (in Russ.).
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