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The present paper concerns Natal'ia Borisovna Dolgorukaia's Own Notes – the first female autobiography in the history of Russian literature. Contrary to a received notion of scholarship, the generic character of these Notes is not determined by the hagiographic tradition, but by the interaction of two secular genres – the memoir on one hand, and the novel on the other. With their generically complex...
This article is devoted to the analysis of Xavier de Maistreʼs novella ‘La Jeune Sibérienne’ (1815). The novella can be considered an important feature of the Russian-French literary relations in the first half of the nineteenth century. Moreover, it was one of the works that was responsible for the stereotype of religiosity, especially of the Russian woman, as the basis of Russian spirituality that...
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