PARTICIPANTS OF THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD COUNCIL IN THE NOVEL BY M.N. ZAGOSKIN "YURI MILOSLAVSKY OR THE RUSSIANS IN 1612" AND REAL HISTORICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROTOTYPES OF THE CHARACTERS |
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| 2025 |
| DIALOGUE OF TEXTS AND LITERATURES |
| scientific article | 82-311.6 | ||
| 25-38 | прототипы, исторический роман, Загоскин, городовой совет, Смута, «Юрий Милославский», романтизм, Минин, Черкасский, Образцов, Мансуров, prototypes, historical novel, Zagoskin, city council, Time of Troubles, "Yuri Miloslavsky", romanticism, Minin, Cherkassky, Obraztsov, Mansurov |
| The article is devoted to the novel by M.N. Zagoskin "Yuri Miloslavsky or the Russians in 1612". The scene of Nizhny Novgorod city council making a decision to liberate Moscow from the Poles is analyzed. Literary characters are compared with their historical prototypes. The article is based on an unpublished source, the notebook of M.N. Zagoskin. It was established that M.N. Zagoskin used used mostly the names of real members of the militia as prototypes of the council participants. They are listed in the charter of Dmitri Pozharsky to Putivl and other documents. M.N. Zagoskin also used historical literature and wrote out Polish and Russian names and terms from it. The characters participating in the scene can be divided into two groups: heroes, who are confident that they must fight; those who are practical, urge to think everything through and calculate. Kuzma Minin accumulates the opinions of these groups, symbolizes folk wisdom. The hidden enemy A. Istoma-Turenin has a special role. The article contains historical information about D. Cherkassky, G. Obraztsov, B. Kutumov, P. Mansurov, S. Samsonov and others. Due to the participation of different characters with different points of view and different roles, M.N. Zagoskin managed to correctly show the main thing: confusion in society, the presence of opposing points of view on the future of the state and the growing desire of different strata to unite and overcome the Time of Troubles. The characters of the council scene are not always close to their historical prototypes, but the author correctly understood and conveyed the essence and importance of the event. |
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