Russian literary response to the First Partition of Poland

• Authors: Toporov V.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Vladimir Toporov's article was written as a contribution to the jubilee book published to celebrate Professor Viktor Khoryev's seventieth anniversary (Studia Polonica. K 70-letiyu V. A. Khoryeva, Moscow, 2001). According to the book's title, the author, perceiving the partitions of Poland as a great political crime of 19th century, one which burdened the conscience of Russia and Russians, attempts at replying the question of how Russian literature responded to those dramatic events marking the end of the First Commonwealth. There were not so many compassioning reactions on the part of Russian literature. Attention is drawn, among those few, by 'Boleslav', a tragedy (unfinished) by Mikhail Muravev (1757-1817), one of the first Russian sentimentalist writers. The article reconstructs the play's creative history, along with discussing various depictions of the same theme (being a motif from the history of Poland) and outlining its ideological significance.

Keywords

EN

PARTITIONS; POLISH HISTORY; RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 1/2(97/98)
• Pages: 87-99
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Toporov V.

• V. Toporov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01383095