Published: 2024-08-13

At the very beginning of the myth of Yermak in the Russian literature (the poem Yermak by Ivan Dmitriev)

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Abstract

The paper presents the dramatic poem Yermak (1794) by Ivan Dmitriev from a perspective of the conception of myth. Yermak Timofeyevich (1532?-1585)  was a Cossacs ataman and is today a hero in Russian folklore and myths. A methodological basis are the definitions of myth by Ryszard Tomicki (an ethnologist) and Jerzy Topolski (a historian), historical myth and political myth. An interpretive background is the literary programme of sentimentalism, the Ossianism and the historiographic works by Nikolay Karamzin (the picture of Siberia in the 9th volume of the History of the Russian State). The origin of Dmitriev’s poem were by the literary (poetics of sentimentalism, the Ossianism) and ideological factors (acceptance of territorial development of Russia, sacralisation of the figures).

Keywords: Yermak Timofeyevich, myth, Siberia, Ivan Dmitriev, Yermak, Ossianism

 

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Dąbrowska, M. (2024). At the very beginning of the myth of Yermak in the Russian literature (the poem Yermak by Ivan Dmitriev). Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (3 (187), 13–29. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.17335

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No. 3 (187) (2024)
Published: 2024-08-29


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

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Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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