Open Access"A Simile of This and That": Connotations of Champagne in the Russian Poetry of the 1810s — 1830s
Author(s) -
N. N. Mazur
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 - 10.31860/0131-6095-2020-3-34-50
Subject(s) - simile , poetry , motif (music) , literature , russian literature , politics , history , linguistics , art , philosophy , metaphor , law , aesthetics , political science
Not only champagne, but also its descriptions in the Russian poetry of 1810s — 1830s were French by their origin: Voltaire’s satire "Le Mondain" and its translation by Dmitry Baranov provided the motif base for such descriptions. Baranov’s decision to omit Voltaire’s comparison between the French national character and champagne, encouraged Russian poets to introduce new analogies to fill the gap. Thanks to this competition in versifi cation skills, champagne gained a wide spectrum of symbolic, political and poetic connotations, described in our article.