The Image of Prince Svetomir and Its Mythological, Agiographic, Folklore, and Poetic Pretexts

Absract: The article is devoted to the Tale of Prince Svetomir by famous symbolist poet Vyach. Ivanov, the concept of which the author gestated from the beginning of the 1890s and until his death in 1949. In the Tale the author mainly chose such motifs that can justifiably be called ‘international'. The analysis reveals that Vyach. Ivanov was prompted to select such motifs by the idea of synthesis of the two cultures - Eastern and Western. Notably, this ‘synthesis' was important for him both as a historiosophic and a spiritual, religious perspective stemming from the ideas of VL. Solovyov - ‘the philosopher of Russian messianism'.

Keywords: SYMBOLISM, VYACH. IVANOV'S TALE OF PRINCE SVETOMIR, THE IDEA OF SYNTHESIS OF THE EAST AND WEST, VL. SOLOV

: Category: Vol 74, NO 4 (2015)

Pages: 35-46

Author: E. A. Takho-Godi

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