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TYPOLOGICAL METHODS OF COMMUNICATION WITH FOLKLORE IN THE COMEDY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY: GRIBOEDOV, ERDMAN // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 7 (109). P. 7-11

The article discusses common approaches in the poetics of the comedies by Alexander Griboyedov and Nikolay Erdman, who innovatively use folklore. Both authors refer to the aphorism as a way to extend the stage space, establish new links between the plot of comedy and reality. Griboyedov for this uses aphorisms created by analogy with the Russian proverb, connecting with the Polish and Georgian realities. Erdman parodies oral “new language” of Soviet times.

Keywords: dramatic proverbs, genre, comic, aphorism, a comedy of classicism, the architectonics of the plot.

THE CAUCASUS AS UTOPIA OF CLASSICAL RUSSIAN LITERATURE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 9 (150). P. 83-89

The article deals with the basic motifs of Caucasus, the author reveals such valuable ideas of the Caucasus as space of freedom (A. S. Pushkin’s, M. Yu. Lermontov’s, L. N. Tolstoy’s “Prisoner of the Caucasus“), the place of ideal community Leo Tolstoy’s “The Cossacks”, containing utopian ideas about the social structure of the Cossacks, Lermontov's poem “The Novice” (“Mtsyri”) about the “ideal motherland”. In 1844–1853 уears in Tiflis was widely visited by Russian writers who sought to create a new branch of Russian literature – “Caucasian literature”. V. Sollogub and Ya. Polonsky actively tried to turn this utopia into reality. The Russian and Georgian Orthodox unity is the basis of the Russian writers love to the Caucasus. Idealization of the Caucasus peculiar to Russian literature of the XIX century was ended with this novel of Tolstoy. In the XX century the utopia inferior to a sober, although sometimes delighted look on Georgia and the Caucasus (B. Pasternak, B. Akhmadulina, A. Bitov).

Keywords: The Caucasus, utopia, motif, the literature of Russian Romanticism, “Prisoner of the Caucasus”

ILLUSION AND UTOPIA IN THE COMEDY OF V.SOLLOGUB “THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING OR GEORGIA IN A THOUSAND YEARS” // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 11 (152). P. 29-35

The article deals with the conditionality of style and genre of a dramatic work, depending on the audience. V. Sollogub is an author of the two plays on Caucasian topic. One of them – “Night at dukhan” (“dukhan” – Caucasian avern) is adressed to the Russian public and represents a kind of the comic sketch close to a vaudeville. The other – “The Night before Wedding or Georgia in Thousand Years” is adressed to the Tiflis's audience and is written in genre of comedy-utopia. The playwright came to utopia in connection with his views on the future development of Caucasus. He saw the mission of Russian Empire in cultural conquering of the region and in interpenetration of Russian and Caucasian cultures. This was something like ongoing of peacemaking attitude of the Caucasian governor M.S.Vorontsov who practised a very wide politicy of enlightment. The plotline of the play is based on events contemporary for the author, and the illusion emerges due to plexus of the recognizable and straightly visionary episodes. The comic story does not prevent the playwright from giving deep characteristics of the present and the future. Sollogub touches upon a subject of the Western civilization, the Age of Enlightenment, the problem of nationalities in future, the women status. The comedy is written in the refined language involving Russian-Georgian bilingualism.

Keywords: V. Sollogub, utopia, illusion, Caucasus, comedy, multicultural, genre, style, audience, historical reality