VALORILE, OBICEIURILE, TRADIȚIILE ȘI MORAVURILE DE FAMILIE ALE POPULAȚIEI RUSE DIN BASARABIA INTERBELICĂ ÎN LITERATURA ROMÂNĂ
FAMILY VALUES, CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS AND ETHICS OF THE RUSSIAN FAMILY IN BESSARABIA (THE INTERWAR PERIOD IN ROMANIAN LITERATURE)

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the essays “Bessarabian Roads” by Mikhail Sadoveanu, written in the genre of ethnographic fiction, and the moral-descriptive novel by Georgy Bezvikonny “The Last Superfluous Man”. Our selection of works was based on the representativeness of these sources for the announced topic. M. Sadoveanu recreates a phantomatic picture of the micro-space of the Russian noble family of Madame Panina (1920s); the system of the images of these essays clearly reveals the atmosphere of social disorientation of the Russian population, as well as the manifestation of clear trends of integration into the Romanian social space. However, the family values, customs, traditions and the morals of the Russian family in Bessarabia during the interwar period retain some elements of continuity. G. Bezvikonny in details recreates the spirit of the era, its historical flavor, retrospectively reflects the life of a typical Bessarabian family with a high social class status (the so-called “Russian boyars”); in his novel, the biopsychological portrait of the family, constituted over generations, emerges in the detailed aspects of family values, customs and traditions. The above mentioned works also substantively consider the issues of “Bessarabian identity”, which were especially relevant in the aspect of studying the Russian family in the interwar period.

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