Travel Notes" by A. S. Pushkin: an Episode in the Kalmyk Kibitka (from the materials to the commentary)

Abstract

Asia and the East in the European part of the Russian Empire were re-opened to Alexander Pushkin during his journey to the Caucasus and Transcaucasia in 1829, to the war of front-line forces with the Ottoman Empire. The article contains a commentary of historical and literary, socio-historical and ethnographic character to the episode of poet's visiting the Kalmyk kibitka (nomad tent) taken from "Travel Notes" the poet kept during the trip.

Keywords

• «путевые записки»
• pushkin
• journey
• «travel notes»
• the east
• the context of freedom
• kalmyk tea
• kalmyk maiden
• moral qualities