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Writing the Time of Troubles: False Dmitry in Russian Literature (The Unknown Nineteenth Century)
Author: Marcia A. Morris
Year: August 20, 2018
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English
Year: August 20, 2018
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English
Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or was he an upstart pretender? A harbinger of Russia's doom or a herald of progress? Writing the Time of Troubles traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.