title: The meeting of a Russian with Europe in the travel writings of Peter the Great’s era (A. A. Matveev)
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metadata.value: Solovev, Andrei Iu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T19:12:47Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T19:12:47Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Solovev A. Iu. The meeting of a Russian with Europe in the travel writings of Peter the Great’s era (A. A. Matveev). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2022, 19 (3): 486–496. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.305 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39053
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper revises the traditional view at the travel writings of the era of Peter the Great. They
  are usually considered as naive works, and content of these works as identical to the biographies
  of it’s authors. The method of historical and linguistic research of V. M. Zhivov on the
  language of Russian writing is applied to the material of travelogues. The main purpose is to
  account for the pragmatics of the utterance in travel literature as in a phenomenon synthesizing
  heterogeneous features in principle and in the transitional Peter’s Era in particular. The
  paper is focused on the notes of the diplomat A. A. Matveev, compiled by him for himself as
  a result of his journey from the Hague to Paris (1705–1706). The narrative technique in Matveev’s
  text is examined (descriptions of the monuments of the French capital and the inscriptions
  to them in Latin), and it is shown that we should not reduce the function of Matveev’s
  work to purely diplomatic tasks of his actual journey. The descriptions recorded in Matveev’s
  text were politically charged: the author not only collected samples of inscriptions, but also
  demonstrated a new way for Russia to glorify the reigning monarch. This peculiar collection
  of Matveev is also considered in the context of cultural phenomena that were relevant at the
  beginning of the 18th century: private and court collections of rarities, embossing of commemorative
  medals, etc. The conclusion is made that borrowed elements change their function
  in the travelogue. In the historical and literary perspective, we must bring such works as
  Matveev’s notes out of the zone of marginal literary phenomena. In general, this allows us to
  see the key trends of the transitional period of the history of Russian literature. It is more appropriate
  to consider these processes not to state the Western European origin of individual
  elements of culture, but to analyze their pragmatics associated with the demarcation from the
  old Russian culture.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 21-18-00527 in the Institute of
  Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, https://rscf.ru/project/21-18-00527/.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 19; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: travel literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. A. Matveev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sculpture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: inscription
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The meeting of a Russian with Europe in the travel writings of Peter the Great’s era (A. A. Matveev)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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