Open AccessANTI-NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGNS OF 1805–1807 AND THE MILITARY THEME IN RUSSIAN POETRY
Author(s) -
Karim Rishatovich Khaliullin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
russkaâ literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 0131-6095
DOI - 10.31860/0131-6095-2021-3-142-155
Subject(s) - rhetoric , poetry , emperor , manifesto , period (music) , theme (computing) , spanish civil war , ideology , literature , russian literature , classics , empire , political science , history , law , economic history , art , politics , ancient history , philosophy , theology , aesthetics , computer science , operating system
The article analyzes the connections between the offi cial rhetoric and the poetry on Napoleonic War of 1805–1807 in the Russian Empire. During the fi rst period of the war (War of the Third Coalition), only a handful of poems was published, whereas the second period (War of the Fourth Coalition) produced a much bigger volume of verse. The author suggests that the quantitative difference in the poetical output between these two phases of the War is directly related to the strategy of the offi cial rhetoric, since in the beginning of the War of the Third Coalition Emperor Alexander I did not publish a special manifesto (just the Recruitment Ordinance) while after the beginning of the War of the Fourth Coalition three Emperor’s manifestos were released. These documents shaped an ideological coordinate system in which the poets were able to produce new texts.