{"id":6240,"date":"2025-04-08T12:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/?page_id=6240"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:43:53","slug":"%d0%ba%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%88%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bb-%d0%bf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/%d0%ba%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%88%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bb-%d0%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"Kvashina L.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

Echo of the December of 1825 events in A. S. Pushkin\u2019s The Captain\u2019s Daughter. <\/em>Pp. 107\u2013112.<\/p>\n

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UDC 821.161.1-31.09″18″<\/p>\n

DOI 10.37724\/RSU.2025.86.1.011<\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong> The article considers A. S. Pushkin\u2019s novel The Captain\u2019s Daughter<\/em> as a multilevel narrative where the concrete-historical, topical and universal themes are deeply and closely interconnected. A new reading of the classic text allows us to better understand and appreciate the aesthetic discoveries and originality of Pushkin\u2019s \u201cartless\u201d prose.<\/p>\n

The timeline is set at the beginning of the story: Grinyov\u2019s father\u2019s resignation from Army service (following the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat<\/em> that made Catherine II Empress of Russia) is the starting point of the conflict. The narrative also includes the theme of Pugachev\u2019s imposture as the Tzar, a problem of our Russian history and consciousness. In the novel, this is supported by a whole system of hints and associations.<\/p>\n

Pushkin\u2019s narrative is organized in such a way that in the key moments of the hero’s fate we can guess the critical events of the author\u2019s life and ancestral history. For example, the dialogue between Grinyov and Pugachev correlates with the poet\u2019s conversation with Nicholas I in the autumn of 1826, and the experience of Catherine the Great\u2019s reign correlates with the living modernity: the fate of the Decembrists. This theme was very personally experienced by the poet, and the present article analyzes this hidden layer of The Captain\u2019s Daughter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Empress Catherine\u2019s act of mercy on Grinyov is interpreted as a realization of the principle of supreme power, and thus it is a way of overcoming Catherine\u2019s own act of \u201cimposture\u201d and a guarantee of the legitimacy of her rule. In Pushkin\u2019s contemporary context, Catherine\u2019s gesture can be seen as a call for \u201cmercy to the fallen\u201d (in Pushkin\u2019s version of Exegi monumentum), <\/em>addressed quite directly to Tsar Nicholas I.<\/p>\n

Thus, \u201cthe simple tale of Russian life\u201d is made a deep reflection on the laws of history, the nature of authority, as well as on the fate of condemned \u201cfriends, brothers, and comrades\u201d (the Decembrists of 1825).<\/p>\n

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Keywords:<\/em><\/strong> Decembrists, Catherine the Great, \u201cThe Captain\u2019s Daughter,\u201d mercy, Nicholas I, A. S. Pushkin, imposture in political history.<\/p>\n

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