RELIGIOUS AND PRAYER MOTIFS IN THE POETRY OF POETS-PRISONERS OF GULAG

• Authors: Schmidt W.
• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

Gulag is not only a prison for different social groups in Russian history but also a world where spiritual and religious thoughts have developed. In this essay, the author describes numerous poems by Gulag prisoners. Several are prayers to God for help and the possibility to escape from a critical situation. The prisoners do not pray to God only, but also to Holy Mary and guardian angels. besides these, the religious poems provide a powerful digest of Stalinist times.

Keywords

EN

GULAG PRISONERS' POETRY; HOLY MARY & ANGELS; PRAYERS TO GOD; RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Orientalis
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 203-211
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Schmidt W.

• W. Schmidt, Regensburg, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02815733