The Depiction of the People in the “History of the Victories of the State of Moscow”

Authors

  • Olga A. Tufanova A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences; State Academy of Slavic Culture , Институт мировой литературы им. А.М. Горького РАН; Государственная академия славянской культуры https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2254-7969 (unauthenticated)

Keywords:

The Story of the Victories of the Moscow State, ordinary people, the motiv of rebellion, constant epithets, contrasting and comparative characteristics

Abstract

The article explores the specificities of depiction of traitors, ‘warriors’ and simple citizens in the “History of the Victories of the State of Moscow”, whose author, while skillfully using the devices traditional for the Ancient Russian literature, tries for the first time to give different characteristics of different social groups, abandoning the generalized, abstract ‘people’.

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Published

02-12-2013

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2013)

Section

War in the history of Slavic peoples