Lubok Novel About Princess Sophia
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5008-2025-5-94-104
Abstract
Aim. To analyze how the figure of Princess Sophia was perceived on the very periphery of the literary field – in the so-called popular print (lubok) literature. The material for the analysis is the little-studied popular print novel by Mikhail Yevstigneyev about Princess Sophia.
Methodology. The main research methods are analytical and comparative.
Results. One of the results of the research is clarification of the novel’s dating. Also, the history of the creation of the text was traced, its sources were examined, and the hypothesis about the compilation nature of the work was substantiated.
Research implications. Evstigneev’s popular novel is one of the first detailed attempts of artistic interpretation of the historical figure of Princess Sophia, notable for the fact that, due to its belonging to a peripheral layer of literature, it reflects not so much the author’s but the collective popular perception of the image of the princess.
About the Author
N. N. Puriaeva
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nadezhda N. Puriaeva – Cand. Sci. (Philology), Assoc. Prof., Head of the Department, Department
of Russian Language, Institute of Russian Language and Culture
Moscow
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