Psychological properties of a knight’s personality in the images of romantic poetry by V. A. Zhukovsky and their functions in the development of intelligence of future officers
- Authors: Naumov P.Y.1,2, Utyuganov A.A.3
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							Affiliations: 
							
- Main Military Clinical Hospital of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation
 - National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine
 - Military Order of Zhukov Academy of the National Guard of the Russian Federation
 
 - Issue: Vol 16, No 4 (2025)
 - Pages: 307-345
 - Section: Psychological Studies
 - Published: 30.09.2025
 - URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2658-4034/article/view/349042
 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.12731/2658-4034-2025-16-4-903
 - EDN: https://elibrary.ru/LXOEEI
 - ID: 349042
 
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Background. The purposefulness and effectiveness of the process of developing the intelligence of a future officer also implies the appropriate selection of the content of education, i.e. those knowledge, values and subject examples characteristic of the social activities of an intellectual officer. In the aspect of the development of intelligence in the context of a military educational organization of higher education, the use of literary and artistic examples is an important component of achieving goals and performing tasks to form psychological properties in the personality structure that characterize the future officer as an intellectual. Poetry as one of the forms of literary, artistic and value understanding of the vicissitudes of being social subjects simultaneously affects the emotional-sensual, intellectual-informational and value-semantic spheres of personality functioning. Therefore, it is possible to use the psychological potential of poetry and poetic images in the process of purposeful development of the intelligence of the future officer.
The purpose of the study is to identify, describe and substantiate the psychological properties of the knight's personality intelligence in the artistic images of romantic poetry by V.A. Zhukovsky, as well as to establish their functions in the development of the intelligence of future officers in a military educational organization.
Materials and methods. To achieve the goal and fulfill the tasks of the study, the authors, within the framework of systemic, activity and cultural approaches, used methods of analysis, analogy, abstraction, deduction, classification, generalization. The use of the author's methodology made it possible to reveal the psychological properties of the knight's personality in the artistic images of romantic poetry V.A. Zhukovsky and their functions in the development of the intelligence of future officers in a military educational organization.
Research results. The subject of this work was the psychological image of a warrior knight in the work of the Russian poet Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky in the context of the artist's disclosure of the psychological properties of a military man's personality and description of these qualities. From the perspective of generalizing knowledge in the subject field of educational psychology, the authors revealed psychological properties in the artistic images of romantic poetry V.A. Zhukovsky and assessed their functions in the development of intelligence of future officers in a military educational organization.
About the authors
Petr Yu. Naumov
Main Military Clinical Hospital of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation; National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine
							Author for correspondence.
							Email: petr.naumov.777@mail.ru
				                	ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2875-2322
				                	SPIN-code: 2750-3053
																		                								
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Assistant Head of the Hospital for Legal Work – Head of the Legal Support Department; Senior Researcher, Department of Scientific And Strategic Development of Primary Health Care
Russian Federation, 101, Vishnyakovskoye highway, Balashikha, Moscow region, 143914, Russian Federation; 10/3, Petroverigsky Pereulok, Moscow, 101990, Russian Federation
Alexey A. Utyuganov
Military Order of Zhukov Academy of the National Guard of the Russian Federation
														Email: outioganov@mail.ru
				                					                																			                								
Doctor of Psychology, Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Military Academy for Research – Head of the Research Center
Russian Federation, 1, Pilot Pilyutova Str., St. Petersburg, 198206, Russian Federation
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