V.A. Zhukovsky in the newspaper Russkiy Invalid (1840–1852): reception of his personality and works
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2026-6-74-83
The subject of research is reception of V.A. Zhukovsky’s personality and works in a military newspaper Russkiy Invalid (1840–1852). Through the continuous sampling method, the author selects 125 materials related to Zhukovsky and divides them into 7 groups: 1) biographical materials, including posthumous ones; 2) works by Zhukovsky and their fragments; 3) announcements and entries about publishing and selling works by Zhukovsky; 4) materials about collections, almanacs, journals containing works by Zhukovsky and critical articles about him; 5) works by other authors dedicated to Zhukovsky or related to him; 6) literary and critical materials about works by other authors mentioning Zhukovsky; 7) critical articles on works and translations by Zhukovsky. The author considers all the groups of materials. Due to comparison with materials of the two previous periods (1813–1825 and 1826–1839), the article considers the reception dynamically. In 1840, Zhukovsky left Russia and went to Germany devoting himself to family life; therefore, the newspaper stopped mentioning him in the “Internal News” column as a courtier but continued mentioning him as a famous poet, a talented translator, and the former teacher of the heir to the throne. The newspaper contains a lot of materials about publishing and selling his works remaining popular among the reading public. Russkiy Invalid publishes two his texts dedicated to the French Revolution of 1848, a letter and a poem: they express a political position similar to the position of the newspaper. In addition, the newspaper publishes two versions of Zhukovsky’s letter about the translation of the Odyssey, a critical article about his translation from the Indian epic Nala and Damayanti, an article about his children’s poems. A special group of publications consists of posthumous materials expressing grief over the loss of the great poet: the newspaper publishes both official obituaries and private letters full of emotional details.
Keywords: V.A. Zhukovsky, Russkiy Invalid, reception, criticism, newspapers, journals
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Issue: 6, 2026
Series of issue: Issue 6
Rubric: RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN LITERATURE
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