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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Remizov, Alexei

Titel

SAVVA GRUDTSYN

Ist Teil von

• The Little Devil and Other Stories, 2021, p.209-266

Ort / Verlag

New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• “SAVVA GRUDTSYN” IS A FAIRY TALE VERSION OF HISTORICAL EVENTS, ACTUAL PARTICIPANTS MIXED IN WITH FICTIONAL ONES. AFTER THE TIME OF TROUBLES AND THE ELECTION OF ALEXEI, THE FIRST ROMANOV TSAR, IN 1613, WAR BETWEEN ORTHODOX RUSSIA AND CATHOLIC POLAND AND LITHUANIA CONTINUED. MERCHANTS TRIED TO PURSUE THEIR PROFITABLE COMMERCE, WHILE WAR RAGED ON THE BORDERS. THE SIEGE OF SMOLENSK WAS LONG AND PAINFUL, AND THE RUSSIAN VICTORY IN 1633 WAS A MAJOR STEP IN KEEPING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER. IN REMIZOV’S FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT, SEMYON THE HOLY FOOL AND VIKTOR THE DEVIL FIGHT OVER SAVVA’S SOUL. Veliky Ustyug, Glenden in the