Ushakova D. O.

P. Polonsky on National Traditions. Travel Essays Written in the Caucasus Р. 135-145.

UDC 821.161.1-311.8.09

The article focuses on the origin and evolution of ethnographic literature in Russia of the 1840s. It underlines Russian writers’ zeal for exploring the culture of various peoples inhabiting the Russian Empire. J. P. Polonsky’s travel essays which were written in the Caucasus are viewed through the prism of Russian ethnographic literature. The article analyzes J. P. Polonsky’s travel essays which contain information about peoples who inhabited the geographical regions known as Caucasia and Transcaucasia. J. P. Polonsky was interested not only in everyday routine, but also in national legends, which makes his ethnographic prose really profound and insightful. The moral and spiritual traditions of Caucasian peoples impressed J. P. Polonsky, for these peoples cherished their multi-centennial historical and cultural heritage. The analysis of J. P. Polonsky’s traveling essays written in the Caucasus shows that the writer made a considerable contribution to the development of Russian ethnographic literature of the 1840s.

ethnographic school; J. P. Polonsky; the Caucasus newspaper; the Transcaucasian Bulletin newspaper; travel essays; ethnographic literature; people’ spiritual experience

 

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