Open Access«…The Circle Where She Lived…»: Possible Prototypes of Sofi a Belovodova
Author(s) -
Aleksandra Vladimirovna Romanova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
russkaâ literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 0131-6095
DOI - 10.31860/0131-6095-2020-2-207-208
Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , position (finance) , plot (graphics) , literature , psychology , mathematics , art , geometry , statistics , finance , economics
The article outlines the possible prototypes of one of the characters of I. A. Goncharov’s novel "The Precipice" — Sofi a Belovodova. The author of the novel arguably left no evidence concerning any prototypes for this character, and claimed that the image was artifi cial. Nevertheless, years of research by the Goncharov scholars made it possible to pinpoint several persons in the writer’s entourage who might have been involved in prototype situations that corresponded to the plot of the novel. These are E. V. Sukhovo-Kobylina (Evgenia Tur) and N. I. Nadezhdin (in the position of Teacher Yelnin), E. I. Drutskaya-Sokolinskaya, E. V. Tolstaya (and Goncharov himself in the position of Rajskii), Princess Z. A. Volkonskaya and Count Miniato Ricci (in the position of Milari), as well as Count Giovanni Matteo de Candia (Giovanni Mario) (separately, in the position of Milari).