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KARAMZIN’S MOTIVES IN PUSHKIN’S TRAGEDY “BORIS GODUNOV” // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 11 (113). P. 98-101

The present paper is devoted to the comparison of A. S. Pushkin’s tragedy “Boris Godunov” with “History of Russian State” by Karamzin. Apprehending by Pushkin the artistic originality of Karamzin’s “History of the Russian State” appeared not only in real corresponding, idea community, but in the artistically – aesthetic influence of “History” by Karamzin to the Pushkin’s tragedy. Analyzing the organization of artistic time and space around the images of Boris Godunov and the False Demetrius it’s possible to see the definite rhythmic drawing which is similar very much with Karamzin’s presentation of the 10th –12th centuries events of “History of the Russian State.”

Keywords: “History of the Russian State”, the False Demetrius , genre, artistic time, space, tragedy, chronicle

THE ROLE OF SHAKESPEARE’S THEATRE IN FORMING OF THE RUSSIAN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 7 (148). P. 171-177

The article examines the process of birth of Shakespeare's tradition in the Russian dramaturgy and its influence on the principles of plotcomposing and genreforming of the Russian tragedy. For the first time, A. P. Sumarokov, the founder of the Russian dramatic art system, appeals to Shakespear and lays the foundation of the tradition to orient the Russian historic drama art to the Shakesperian theatre. Historical substratum of his tragedy “The Pretender Dimitri”, the formation of artistic principles of historicism, structural interpenetration of the genre canons of tragedy and comedy turned out closer not to the traditions of the French classic theater and drama but to the English Shakespearian drama.

Keywords: dramaturgy, tragedy, plot, “the epoch of the time of troubles”, Sumarokov, impostor

GENRE ORIGINALITY OF “THE LIFE OF THE RIGHTEOUS ELDER THEODORE OF TOMSK”: THE PROBLEM OF THE MODERN CANON OF HAGIOGRAPHIC // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 9 (150). P. 114-120

The presented article is a part of the study on the review of the modern genre identity hagiographic canon material on “The Life of the righteous elder Theodore of Tomsk” composed by hegumen Silvanus (Vyurovym) (now Father Kolpashevsky and Strezhevskoy). The considered work reflects the current stage of evolution of hagiographic genre and meets modern canonical genre and stylistic requirements of objectivity, factology, conciseness, and the tendency to transfer the individual characteristic of the ascetic and not to focus on agiotip. Most attention is paid to composition peculiarities, author’s image, style of live and artistic principles of creating an image of a saint. This article discusses the principles of composite construction “The life of the righteous elder Theodore of Tomsk”.

Keywords: hagiography, exordium life, saint, righteous, martyr, orthodoxy, canon, composition, author, style

GENRE ORIGINALITY OF “THE LIFE OF THE RIGHTEOUS ELDER FEODOR OF TOMSK”: THE PROBLEM OF THE MODERN HAGIOGRAPHIC CANON // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 6 (159). P. 161-168

The presented article is a part of study on the review of the modern genre identity hagiographic canon material on “The Life of the righteous elder Feodor of Tomsk” composed by abbot Siluanus (Vyurovym) (now bishop Kolpashevsky and Strezhevskoy). The considered work reflects the current stage of evolution of hagiographic genre and meet modern canonical genre and stylistic requirements of objectivity, faktologichnosti, conciseness, and the tendency to transfer the individual characteristic of the ascetic and not focus on agiotip. The greatest attention in this paper is given to studying the life of style, narrative principles of copyright and artistic means of creating an image of a saint.

Keywords: hagiography, prologue being, holy, righteous, martyr, composition, author, style, canon, Orthodoxy

GENRE MODIFICATIONS OF MODERN HAGIOGRAPHIC WORKS FOR CHILDREN // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 10 (163). P. 157-165

This article is devoted to the study of genre modifications of modern hagiographic works for children. Appeared in the last decade, quite extensive, new and yet unexplored corpus of hagiographic texts, their variety and diversity make appeal to the description and preparation of sample typology of genre modifications of hagiographic works. The examined genre modifications of hagiographic genre are oriented towards already existing in the literature pretext (life, pateraki, prologues) but include the assimilated starts of other genre forms. We should mention the creative approach to the hagiographic work, the pursuit of individual style of presentation.

Keywords: hagiography, composition, author, style, canon, genre modification

POETICS OF CONTEMPORARY SIBERIAN HAGIOGRAPHIC LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN (ON THE MATERIAL OF HAGIOGRAPHIC WORKS ABOUT THE HOLY RIGHTEOUS ELDER THEODORE OF TOMSK) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 11 (176). P. 153-161

Thearticle ezamins the principles of compositional construction, plot construction and genre style nature of the first samples of regional hagiographical literature for children. As a rule, children hagiography is oriented towards «mature» canonical biographies. That is why in the analyses of the texts the interrelationship principles between modern hagiographical literature about the Siberian saint – righteous staretz Fedor and canonical biographical texts, put together by Father-Superior Siluan (Viurov) were compared, as well as artistic interpreting strategies of writers were examined. Special attention was given to the analysis of artistic principles used for depiction of the image of Siberia that is an important geographical characteristic feature of Siberian regional literature.

Keywords: hagiography, life, plot, genre, style, composition, image, Siberia

RESULTS AND PROSPECTS OF STUDIES OF MODERN SIBERIAN LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (REPORT ON THE GRANT OF RUSSIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF TOMSK REGION) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 2 (179). P. 128-134

The article is published with financial support of RGNF within the scientific project No. 15-14-70005 a (р) “Works of the Siberian writers and the Siberian subject in literature of the XX–XXI century for children and youth”. The article presents the analysis of results of biennial work (2015–2016) of the research staff of the department of literature and methods of teaching of TSPU and the accomplices over the grant issues “Works of the Siberian writers and the Siberian subject in literature of the 20th–21st century for children and youth”, supported by the Russian humanitarian scientific fund and the administration of the Tomsk region. It reveals the relevance of the objectives and the novelty of the research of poetics and the perspective of the Siberian literature for children and youth, the systematization of data, the study of the biography and creative work of the little-known to the reader modern writers of the Siberian region. Describes the results and the prospects of further work on the perspective put by participants of the grant.

Keywords: children’s and youth literature, Siberian writers and poets, literary history, cultural-educational space, poetics

ANALYSIS OF THE RECEPTION OF MODERN CHILDREN’S HAGIOGRAPHIC LITERATURE BY AN AVERAGE ADOLESCENT READER. PART 1. THE STUDY OF THE HORIZON OF READERS‘ EXPECTATIONS // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 11 (188). P. 185-193

This article is a part of a larger study on the Siberian modern hagiographic literature for children and adolescents. The study of religious and literary texts of hagiographic character of the Siberian Holy righteous elder Theodore of Tomsk in this article is carried out in the aspect of receptive aesthetics. The first part of the article is devoted to the study of “horizon of expectations” of the young readers of contemporary hagiographic literature. To do this, an experiment was conducted with a written survey of adolescents of secondary and Sunday schools of Tomsk to ascertain the sociology of their reader taste and competence. In the course of the experiment, the students answered the questions of the questionnaire, which allowed to identify the current and potential reader of the hagiographic literature with the existing ideas about the cultural concept of holiness, as well as clarify the attitude of the respondents to the hagiographic literature. The second part of the article presents the results of a study of the reception by children of adolescent age of children’s life-related works about the Siberian saint.

Keywords: hagiography, genre, life, receptive aesthetics, reader, experiment, questionnaire, survey, recipient

ANALYSIS OF THE RECEPTION OF MODERN CHILDREN’S HAGIOGRAPHIC LITERATURE BY AN AVERAGE ADOLESCENT READER. PART 2. EXPERIENCE OF EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 6 (195). P. 128-136

The article contains the research results of different levels of interpretation and perception of hagiographic texts about saint old man, Fedor Tomskiy, written for children’s readership, recipients of adolescence in Tomsk. The results of experiment are provided according to the horizon of reader’s expectations, to the analysis of which the first part of the article is devoted. The pretext experiment, based on a questionnaire survey among the pupils of Sunday schools and general education schools of Tomsk, had the aim to identify different types of readers, belonging to secular and religious cultures, which affected their ideas of hagiographic genre, phenomenon of sanctity and knowledge of particular saints. The perception of hagiographic works for children by pupils of Sunday schools and general education schools in Tomsk was studied during the second experiment. This research was conducted within the receptive aesthetics which is aimed to study the reader’s response to works and particularities of text’s perception. And the functional reality of work is determined by interacting of the reader and the textual structure. Modern works of art and religion, written for young reader, have different formal and informative levels, modal and value plans. The understanding of difficult textual structure happens only in the process of its specification by recipient. The recipient determines relevance and semantic content of the work, distinguishes emotional and semantic dominant of the text in the process of aesthetic perception. In the course of the experiment, a correlation was found between the reader’s reception of the text and the pretextfactors. The main factor in perception of art and religious text is secular or religious world view.

Keywords: hagiography, hagiographic literature for children, Siberian saint, holy old man Fedor, receptive aesthetics, experiment

TRADITIONS OF SCHOOL DRAMA IN AGIOGRAPHIC PIECES FOR CHILDREN BY SIBERIAN WRITER R. V. KOSHURNIKOVA // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2019. Issue 6 (203). P. 87-96

Introduction. The revival of religious drama in the modern Russian children and youth literature, that began in the 2000–2010s, is being investigated. The specific genre features of the hagiological plays, which were peculiar to school drama in Russia of the17–18th centuries, are being examined. Material and methods. Hagiological plays for children and youth God is Wonderful in His Saints and White Angel of Moscow, written by R. V. Koshurnikova are used as material for the research. Comparative-historical and comparative-typological methods are used for the study of artwork. Results and discussion. In the 17th century, in the period of the emergence and functioning of such a variety of clerical genres as drama about the saints, the formation of its steady dramatic and epic structure took place. The specifics of hagiographic plots, their narrative, associated with historical and biographical content, including a wide range of chronologically developing events of the saint’s life from birth to death, which are often presented against the background of important historical events of the described epoch, led to the strong association of hagiographic plots with epic genres – hagiography. The hagiographic plot, taken from living narratives, retained its epic genre-forming potential and, when it was falling into a different genre system of drama it washed away the dramatic nature of the plays. In the modern dramas about the saints the genre memory of hagiographic drama formed in the 17th century is preserved. Conclusion. Hagiological plays of the modern children’s writer R. V. Koshurnikova reveal the same specific genre features as in the period of formation and functioning of religious drama in Russian literature of the 17th century. The increase in the volume and role of extra-textual elements (remarks), fragments of an extensive narrative text, designed as monologues of characters expands the epic layer in the dramatic text and leads to the diffusion of the genre nature in the plays of the Siberian writer.

Keywords: hagiographic play, genre, chapter, lives of saints for children, R. V. Koshurnikova, school drama

GENRE SPECIFICITY OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ABOUT RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS BY E. POSELYANIN // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2021. Issue 1 (213). P. 95-103

Introduction. Evgeny Poselyanin, a well-known publicist and spiritual writer in pre-revolutionary Russia, having traveled the path of doubts in faith and received a spiritual revival in Optina Pustyn, became a participant in the discussion between the intelligentsia and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church at the beginning of the 20th century. The ecclesiastical nature of E. Poselyanin’s aesthetic consciousness determined the main task of all his work, which was to reproduce and transmit the spiritual world of Russian Orthodoxy. Aim and objectives. The work of the famous spiritual writer and publicist of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Evgeny Nikolaevich Poselyanin, completely forgotten for several decades of the Soviet era, requires «rehabilitation» and serious scientific research. Material and methods. The article examines the collection of biographies of E. Poselyanin «Russian ascetics of the 19th century» (1900 edition). The research is written in the mainstream of historical poetics. Results and discussion. Poselyanin’s literary activity reflected the most important spiritual and cultural searches of his contemporaries and artistic and aesthetic tendencies of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Religious revival of the early 20th century led to a shift in boundaries within Russian culture, during which there was a convergence and mutual influence of theology, philosophy, science with fiction, which was reflected in the transformation of traditional artistic and aesthetic forms. In the work of E. Poselyanin, one can trace how church themes and Orthodox content are clothed in literary forms characteristic of secular literature and departing from strict genre canons, which are becoming more plastic genre formations open for the expression and transmission of the experience of spiritual life by modern man. Conclusion. The book by E. Poselyanin «Russian ascetics of the 19th century» is a document of Russian spiritual life in the 18th – 19th centuries. In this collection of biographical sketches, the traditionalism of the life of the saint is eroded by genre innovations: the inclusion of structural elements from other artistic and journalistic church genres (paterics, sermons, church history) and fictionalized, memoir and biographical prose popular in secular literature.

Keywords: genre, biography, biographical sketch, memoirs, lives, literary portrait

THE POETICS OF NARRATION IN THE HISTORICAL LITERATURE OF THE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (THE STUDY OF THE WORKS OF E. POSELYANIN) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2021. Issue 4 (216). P. 140-149

Introduction. The development of historical prose for children and youth in Russian literature began in the first third of the 19th century and was caused by the rapid development of Russian historiography, which began with the publication of N. M. Karamzin. The children’s writer A. O. Ishimova is credited with creating the first historical work adapted for children. The principle of artistic comprehension of the past, factual material, the concept of the history of the fatherland was borrowed by Ishimova from Karamzin’s “History of the Russian State”. In her History of Russia in Stories for Children, the writer laid down the genre dominants of a new documentary-artistic kind of works in children’s and youth literature, among which one can single out the cognitive and moral-edifying goals of historical work; the choice of political ideology to which the concept of national history is subject; reliance on various historical sources, among which modern historiography occupies an important place; artistic comprehension of the past, psychologization of historical material; inclusion of folklore and author’s literary texts; dialogization of a monologue text in the form of addresses and questions to the addressee, etc. Aim and objectives. Analysis of the poetics of historical narration, as well as the presented concept of Russian history in historical works for children by A. O. Ishimova and E. Poselyanin. This study continues the necessary work in the field of studying the works of the second series of literature and allows us to determine the principles of the formation of children’s and youth’s historical prose of the XIX – early XX centuries. Material and methods. The article analyzes the historical book for children and youth by E. Poselyanin “On the holy leaders of the Russian Land”. The study is written in the mainstream of comparative historical poetics. Results and discussion. The state-legal doctrine of the monarchical principle of power created by L. Tikhomirov influenced the ideological component of the historical book for children and youth by E. Poselyanin “The Legend of the Holy Leaders of the Russian Land”. The villager describes the history of Ancient Rus and touches on the contemporary Russian Empire, based on the concept of the inherent nature of Russian statehood, the model of an Orthodox autocratic monarchy. During the aggravated socio-political crisis at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, when the problem of reassessing Russian statehood and society was actualized, and the prospects for the development of Russia in the context of general European trends were determined, Poselyanin affirms the value and self-sufficiency of Russian statehood, declares the idea of a special path for Russia. Conclusion. Most of the legends about the Russian princes E. Poselyanin are transcriptions of their biographies taken from the chronicles, the Chetykh-Minei of St. Demetrius of Rostov, the Prologue, Old Russian teachings, legends, military tales, as well as scientific works of historians of the 19th century. A variety of sources, an orientation both to the ancient Russian genre of historical legends and to the contemporary memoir and biographical genres of the writer determined the genre originality of the Legend, in which hagiographic stories are interspersed with historical and biographical sketches about Russian princes and saints, united by a common narrative about the tragic and heroic events of ancient Russian history. The Peasant’s Tale combines an epic beginning, lyricism and essayism.

Keywords: narration, historical prose, literature for children and youth, legend, chronicles, lives, historical concept, E. Poselyanin

GENRE UNIQUENESS OF THE HISTORICAL NOVEL “THE ARCHITECTS” BY A. M. VOLKOV // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2022. Issue 3 (221). P. 134-141

Introduction. Conceived in 1946 by the children’s writer A. M. Volkov historical novel about the era of Ivan the Terrible was published in 1954 under the title “The Architects”. Volkov addressed a turning point in Russian history, when there was the formation of autocratic statehood, the strengthening of the Russian centralized multi-ethnic state. All these historical processes are reflected in the architecture of the sixteenth-century Moscow Cathedral of the Intercession on the Rvu, known as the Church of St. Basil. Aim and objectives. The principles of artistic historicism in the novel “The Architects” by A. M. Volkov are investigated. The influence of genre models of the Western European historical novel of the Romanticism epoch on the way and methods of construction of plot-compositional whole of the work “The Architects” is considered. Material and methods. The article examines the historical novel “The Architects” by A. M. Volkov. Comparativehistorical and typological methods of analysis of the work of fiction were used. Results and discussion. Volkov’s historical novel stands in the tradition of Western European and Russian historical novels of the Romantic era. At the same time in terms of plot construction, composition, in terms of building a system of characters and even chronotopically the novel is divided into two unequal parts. The first three parts are written on the type of adventure-psychological novel, the model of which was laid by Walter Scott. This genre variety of the historical novel is characterized by combining the themes of war and peace, public and private life, and the fate and position of the main character is closely related to the changing historical situation. The last two parts are written in the type of adventure-philosophical novel, a striking example of which is Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris. The main theme is not the life and adventures of the hero, not a historical or political turning point in the life of the nation, but the connection of history and architectural construction, the statement of moral, ethical and aesthetic values of national culture at a crucial time. Conclusion. The novel “The Architects” shows the erection of the Moscow Cathedral of the Intercession on the Rvu as a monument in honor of an important historical event – the capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible. But the Intercession Cathedral is an expression “in stone” of the whole historical era of the formation of the Russian national autocratic state. This masterpiece of Russian architecture embodied identity, originality and national originality of Russian culture, the departure from imitation of Byzantine aesthetic thought, the idea of unification of nearby lands and different ethnic groups around Moscow.

Keywords: A. M. Volkov, genre, historical novel, Ivan the Terrible, artistic historicism, socialist realism, architects, the Cathedral of the Protection of the Rvu