Zimnij put’ u Puškina. (Nacional’naja priroda kuchnja istorii kak kul’tury)

Abstract

In The Snowstorm, Captain's daughter and Eugene Onegin (chapter V, The dream of Tatyana) Pushkin's heroes of adventurous or sentimental novels are becoming partly fairy tales heroes and their roads in lives are receiving national and historical meaning. First, the adventurous way for the hero is laid by the fairy nature. Acting like a storm reforming the world, nature is continued in history (the 1812 war), or tallies with history (Pugachev's rebellion). The storm joins adventure and service giving the meaning of courtesy to service. Pushing the hero to the adventurous way, the storm takes him to the choice of a bride. Being continued in history (or becoming history), the storm lays for him the way of service as the way of getting a bride. Nature, while becoming the contest of the life of heroine's soul, presents itself like a family's (national) soil. The tie with soil ("nationality") is realized and harmonized by reading novels, e.g. of universal culture.