«Constantinopleletters»: Issues of context, attribution and interpretation
- Authors: Kozlov A.E.1
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Affiliations:
- Novosibirsk State University
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 26-33
- Section: Travelogues: Borderline of Nations, Cultures, Literary Genres
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0131-6095/article/view/314893
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2025-2-26-33
- ID: 314893
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Abstract
The article examines a series of anonymous publications united by the Istanbul theme: «Constantinople Letters», «Greek Letters», «Letter from Pera», «Ten Days on the Bosphorus». All thesepublications, originally contributed toRusskiy VestnikandMoskovskie Vedomostiand signed with cryptonyms: N., S. N., M., testify to a peculiar «appropriation» and «domestication» of the Oriental space. Various traditions and pretexts that complicate the journalistic text are revealed and studied: travelogues by A. S. Pushkin and Lamartine, as well as fiction by W. Thackeray and Ch. Dickens. An attempt is made to attribute the analyzed works to Eugeny Petrovich Novikov, a writer and a diplomat, who remained in service between 1860 and 1882.
About the authors
A. E. Kozlov
Novosibirsk State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: alexeykozlov54@gmail.com
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