“MELCHIZEDEK OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE”: THE SILVER AGE IN SEARCH OF CANTEMIR |
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| 2023 |
| A DIALOGUE OF TEXT AND ERAS |
| scientific article | 821.161.1 | ||
| 17-30 | А.Д. Кантемир, Серебряный век, «множество миров», Prince A. Cantemir, Silver age, «multiplicity of worlds» |
| 2023 is the year of the next anniversary of A.D. Cantemir (assuming that he was born in 1708): 315 years since his birth. This anniversary is forgotten even more firmly than the anniversary of 2018. Approximately the same situation was at the beginning of the 20th century - in the year of the 300th anniversary of Cantemir: not a single printed publication in Russia remembered the round date. At the same time, at the turn of the century, many different materials about Cantemir were published - which suggests that this author was in demand in the silver Age. The purpose of the article is to understand the reasons for this interest. The analysis undertaken in the article of books and articles published during the period under review allows us to speak about their general inventory orientation: the silver Age is aimed at "searching for the Cantemir": active publication of newly found archival biographical materials and works attributed (albeit sometimes too hastily) Cantemir is combined with the desire to systematize and scientifically comprehend what has been found. The work on the scientific biography and the complete corpus of Cantemir 's works is as follows |
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