A. Pushkin's Address 'To a Kalmyk Maiden' as a Historical-Literary Problem

Abstract

Since its publication and especially after the release of “Journey to Erzurum…”, A.Pushkin's address “To a Kalmyk Maiden” has belonged to several most essential spheres of Pushkin’s literary system, appearing in most complex correlation with both his poetry (being a part of set of poems “Travel poems (1829)”) and prose (integrated into travel notes and entering into a dialogue with the text of “Travel…”). The poem is included into the system of Pushkin’s literary esthetic critics formed by the 1820s in context of the poetry of reality thanks to mentioning the passion of ladies to «Cinq-Mars» by Alfred Victor de Vigny and slight appreciation of Shakespeare. The poem “To a Kalmyk Maiden” has something in touch with the art of Pushkin's oral story telling as well as reminds an epistolary novel. Thus the address “To a Kalmyk Maiden” presents a complex historical-literary problem stating the aim of the article to depict its most important aspects.

Keywords

• «путевые записки»
• «путешествие в арзрум…»
• pushkin
• kalmyk maiden
• address
• artistic system
• set of poems
• “travel notes”
• “journey to erzurum…”
• context
• oral storytelling
• domestic epistolary novel