By fables alone : : literature and state ideology in late-eighteenth--early-nineteenth-century Russia / / Andrei Zorin ; translations by Marcus C. Levitt ; with Nicole Monnier and Daniel Schlaffy.

• Superior document: Ars Rossica
• VerfasserIn: Zorin, Andreĭ 1956-
• TeilnehmendeR: Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-; Monnier, Nicole,; Schlaffy, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, Massachusetts : : Academic Studies Press,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Ars Rossika.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 406 pages) :; illustrations.

Presents a translation of Professor Andrei Zorin's Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including "The People's War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807" and "Holy Alliances": V.A. Zhukovskii's Epistle'To Emperor Alexander' and Christian Universalism.

Table of Contents

Russians and Greeks : Catherine II's "Greek Project" and the Russian ode of the 1760s-70s -- The image of the enemy : V. P. Petrov's "Ode on the conclusion of peace with the Ottoman Porte" and the emergence of the mythology of a global conspiracy against Russia -- Eden in Taurus : the "Crimean myth" in Russian culture of the 1780s-90s -- Eden in the Tauride Palace : Potemkin's last project -- The people's war : the time of troubles in Russian literature, 1806-1807 -- Enemy of the people : M.M. Speranskii's fall and the mythology of treason in social and literary consciousness, 1809-1812 -- War and quasi peace : the character and goal of the war in 1812-1814 in the interpretation of A.S. Shishkov and Archimandrite Filaret -- Holy alliances : V.A. Zhukovskii's epistle "To Emperor Alexander" and Christian universalism -- "Star of the east" : the holy alliance and European mysticism translation by Daniel Schlaffy -- The cherished triad : S.S. Uvarov's memorandum of 1832 and the development of the doctrine "Orthodoxy-autocracy-nationality".