Историческое бытование и художественная трансформация народно-утопических легенд в творчестве А. Платонова
Historical existence and artistic transformation of folk-utopian legends in the works of A. Platonov

Summary/Abstract: The folk-utopian legends of Kitež and Belovodie developed in different historical times. The verbal version of legend of Kitež arose in the 13th century, the written version was formed in the second half of the 18th century, but the legend of Belovodie roots back to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Both legends, however, have common cultural genesis as they came into existence among the so-called wanderers or runners sect of Russian Old Believers. These utopian legends are indissolubly linked with national religiousness, which had a second period of blossom in different transformations in Russian culture at the end of 19th-beginning of 20th century. The author attempted to show how motifs and elements of these legends, and realia from the wanderers’ life interlace in the thematical structure of the historical short story of Ivan Zox that has never been studied before from this aspect.

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