Count Nulin, W. K. Küchelbecker, and Prince P. A. Vyazemsky
- Authors: Ivinskiy D.P.1
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: Vol 84, No 6 (2025)
- Pages: 12-20
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1605-7880/article/view/364569
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S2413771525060022
- ID: 364569
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Abstract
This paper discusses the reception of Alexander Pushkinʼs poem “Count Nulin” by W.K. Küchelbecker in his book The Russian Decameron and by Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky in his notebook, where he reflects on Boccaccio’s Decameron. The analysis demonstrates that the approaches of Küchelbecker and This paper discusses the reception of Alexander Pushkinʼs poem “Count Nulin” by W.K. Küchelbecker in his book The Russian Decameron and by Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky in his notebook, where he reflects on Boccaccio’s Decameron. The analysis demonstrates that the approaches of Küchelbecker and Vyazemsky, while largely convergent, are at the same time polemical in important respects when set against Pushkin’s narrative poem.
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D. P. Ivinskiy
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: dmitrij_ivinskij@mail.ru
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor at the Faculty of Philology Moscow, Leninskie Gory, 1
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