Fact and fiction in the romantic historical novel

Russian Review

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 380-393

  Ungurianu, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 60949258784     PISSN: 00360341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9434.00030     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. O. I. Senkovskii (Baron Brambeus), Sobranie sochinenii, 9 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1858-59), 8:44-45. This and further translations from Russian are mine
2. See L. M. Ginzburg, O literaturnom geroe (Leningrad, 1979), 7
3. For an overview of the novels of the period see A. M. Skabichevskii, "Nash istoricheskii roman v ego proshlom i nastoiashchem," in his Sochineniia v dvukh tomakh (St. Petersburg, 1890), 2:653-792
4. A. Pinchuk, "Russkii istoricheskii roman," Filologicheskie zapiski, 1913, no. 1-6, and 1914, no. 1-3
5. I. P. Shcheblykin, "Russkii istoricheskii roman 30-kh godov XIX veka," Problemy zhanrovogo razvitiia v russkoi literature XIX veka (Riazan', 1972), 3-232
6. and, especially, Mark Al'tshuller's erudite and insightful Epokha Val'tera Skotta v Rossii: Istoricheskii roman 1830-kh godov (St. Petersburg, 1996)
7. For a summary of debates surrounding the notion of Russian Romanticism see Lauren G. Leighton, "On a Discrimination of Russian Romanticism," in his Russian Romanticism: Two Essays (The Hague, 1975), 1-40
8. and Iu. V. Mann, Dinamika russkogo romantizma (Moscow, 1995)
9. See David Brown, Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination (London, 1979), 173-14
10. A. A. Dolinin, Istoriia, odetaia v roman: Val'ter Skott i ego chitateli (Moscow, 1988), 200-204
11. and Al'tshuller, Epokha Val'tera Skotta v Rossii, 12-16
12. M. N. Zagoskin, Sochineniia v dvukh tomakh (Moscow, 1987), 1:283
13. F. V. Bulgarin, Sochineniia (Moscow, 1990), 369
14. Poslednii novik, in Lazhechnikov, Sochineniia v dvukh tomakh (Moscow, 1968), 1:295
15. Kliatva pri grobe Gospodnem, in N. A. Polevoi, Izbrannaia istoricheskaia proza (Moscow, 1990), 300
16. Basurman, in Lazhechnikov, Sochineniia 2:634
17. F. V. Bulgarin, Dimitrii Samozvanets, 4 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1830), 1 :vii-viii
18. Russkie v nachale os'mnadtsatogo stoletiia, in Zagoskin, Sochineniia 2 :616
19. Koshchei Bessmertnyi, in A. F. Vel'tman, Romany (Moscow, 1985), 87
20. See Dolinin, Istoriia, odetaia v roman, 190
21. and B. G. Reizov, Frantsuzskii istoricheskii roman v epokhu romantizma (Leningrad, 1958), 545-46
22. Victor Cousin, a French popularizer of German philosophy who influenced de Vigny, uses other terms to distinguish between the two truths: le réel and le vrai (Reizov, Frantsuzskii istoricheskii roman, 162-65). A similar opposition is present in Pushkin's poem "Geroi" (1830), where it is described as a conflict between "low truths" and the "elevating deceit." Although Pushkin was critical of Cinq-Mars, it is possible that de Vigny's "Réflexions" served as a source for "Geroi," which also dwells on truth in history and truth in art
23. V. G. Belinskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 13 vols. (Moscow, 1953-59), 1:134
24. 21Lazhechnikov, Sochineniia 2:302-3
25. See, for example, V. F. Odoevskii, Russkie nochi (Leningrad, 1975), 7
26. and Bestuzhev-Marlinskii, Sochineniia, 2 vols. (Moscow, 1981), 2:465
27. Polevoi, Izbrannaia istoricheskaia proza, 542
28. A. I. Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh (Moscow, 1954-65), 3:32
29. De Vigny, Cinq-Mars, xi
30. For an excellent analysis of the novel's chronology see A. A. Dolinin, "Eshche raz o khronologii Kapitanskoi dochki" in Pushkin i drugie: Sbornik statei k 60-tiletiiu prof. S. A. Fomicheva (Novgorod, 1997), 52-59
31. Consi------derations of space do not allow me to treat here in any detail the extensive literature on the relationship between Kapitanskaia dochka and Istoriia Pugacheva. Among the conceptual works one should mention Marina Tsvetaeva's essay "Pushkin i Pugachev" (1937, reprinted in a number of editions) and Iurii Lotman's article "Ideinaia struktura 'Kapitanskoi dochki'" (1962, reprinted in several editions). The most relevant contributions in recent scholarship include Gerald E. Mikkelson, "Pushkin's History of Pugachev: The Literateur as Historian," in New Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Russian Prose, ed. George G. Gutsche and Lauren G. Leighton (Columbus, OH, 1982), 26-40
32. Paul Debreczeny, The Other Pushkin: A Study of Alexander Pushkin s Prose Fiction (Stanford, 1983)
33. and Andrew Baruch Wachtel, An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past (Stanford, 1994), 66-84
34. "Kapitanskaia dochka v kritike i literaturovedenii," in A. S. Pushkin, Kapitanskaia dochka (Moscow, 1984), 253
35. A. S. Pushkin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (PSS), 17 vols. (Moscow, 1937-59), 9:27
36. Pushkin, Kapitanskaia dochka, 38
37. N. M. Karamzin, Istoriia gosudarstva Rossiiskogo, 12 vols. (1842-14; reprint ed. Moscow, 1989), 9:278-80
38. 37Polevoi, Istoriia russkogo naroda, 6 vols. (Moscow, 1829-33), 5:74
39. Pushkin, PSS 9:373
40. 41P. A. Viazemskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 12 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1878-96), 7:196