U POCZĄTKÓW MITU JERMAKA W LITERATURZE ROSYJSKIEJ (POEMAT IWANA DMITRIJEWA JERMAK)
AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE MYTH OF YERMAK IN THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE (THE POEM YERMAK BY IVAN DMITRIEV)

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the dramatic poem Yermak (1794) by Ivan Dmitriev from a perspective of the conception of myth.Yermak Timofeyevich (1532?–1585) was a Cossacs ataman and is today a hero in Russian folklore and myths. A meth-odological basis is the definitions of myth by Ryszard Tomicki (an ethnologist) and Jerzy Topolski (a historian), historicalmyth, and political myth. An interpretive background is the literary program of sentimentalism, the Ossianism and thehistoriographic works by Nikolay Karamzin (the picture of Siberia in the 9th volume of the History of the Russian State). Theorigin of Dmitriev’s poem was the literary (poetics of sentimentalism, the Ossianism) and ideological factors (acceptanceof territorial development of Russia, sacralization of the figures).

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