Dimitrij....ďalší
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Summary/Abstract: In her study, author is opening a question of False Dmitri dramatic representation from the neglected religionist point of view. She argues against the simplification of the problem to dichotomy Latin – Byzantine (transposed to national terms as Polish – Russian) while such a reduction after the Council of Florence (1439) is almost absurd on the Slavic territory. Having introduced a subtle distinction between universal (Florentine) and local (Brest-Litovsk) Unions, she proposes to attribute it to historic characters and eventually, depending on particular drama, even to dramatis personae. Arguing that the tragic conflict might have resulted from the misunderstanding of the Poles engaged in Brest-Litovsk Union (under Roman jurisdiction, 1595) and Dmitri (1605-6) being still a partisan of Florence (all byzantine-rite Christians under the jurisdiction of Constantinople), she rejects the possibility that Dmitri’s role had been purely instrumental in hands of foreign politics. Consequently, she favors Dmitri as bearer of noble truly ecumenical idea, but tragically compromised by the revelation of his false personal identity. Dmitri actually believed in possibility of ending the Time of troubles and opening Russia new horizons by liberating the Constantinople. His assassination witnesses for the limits of the role of an individual in a historical process and gives him new life in drama and on the stage. Study ends with the closer look on the most recent dramatic interpretation of Dmitri written by the Ukrainian-born rusophone dramatist Klim – example witnessing for the actuality of the topic.

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