„To se musí vidět!“ Oděsa v české dobové percepci*
“You must see this!” Odessa in Czech Perception

Summary/Abstract: Odessa, virtually since its establishment in 1794, has been perceived by both foreign and Russian visitors as a “remarkable” city. Many dimensions of this remarkableness were related to the particularities of this urban space, especially its architectural, geographic and demographic dispositions. The study aims to present the Czech perception of this remarkable city and its inhabitants in the context of a chosen period. This is firstly done using the background of primary sources of information, i.e. observations and comments of selected personalities of Czech cultural life of the last third of the 19th and early 20th centuries who either visited this city or spent some time there. This is then followed by the part addressing our main analytical interest, which is the comparison of the specificity of the “Czech” image of Odessa with the image found in foreign texts of a similar type.

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