Writing the Time of Troubles: False Dmitry in Russian Literature

Writing the Time of Troubles: False Dmitry in Russian Literature

Author
Marcia A. Morris
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Language
English
Year
2018
Page
220
ISBN
1618118633,9781618118639
File Type
pdf
File Size
1011.1 KiB

Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or was he an upstart pretender? A harbinger of Russia’s doom or a herald of progress? Writing the Time of Troubles traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.

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