Between Pushkin and Dostoevsky: poem The Gipsies and comments on it

Affiliation: Center of Sociology of Management and Social Technologies, Federal Scientific-Research Sociologocal Center – Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy os Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost

Edition

Issue 5

Pages

180-192

Abstract

The article studies Dostoevsky’s comment on Pushkin’s poem “The Gypsies” in his Pushkin speech on June 8, 1880 and in some articles. There is an analysis of the distortion of the poem sense – an arbitrary turn from the theme of love in the poem to criticism of the Russian liberals –“Russian Europeans” as detached from the Russian people and so “enemies of the people”. There developed criticism of Dostoevsky’s call to bow to “folk truth” which is “above Pushkin”. The article raise the choice between freedom in love and Dostoevsky’s populism to a level of choice between Pushkin and Dostoevsky as antiPushkin, as a choice of Russia.

Keywords

Pushkin, the Gypsies, Dostoevsky, Pushkin speech, people, folk truth, liberals, liberalism, mediation, Russian Europeans, enemies of people

Received

05.08.2018

Publication date

14.10.2018

Number of characters

686

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GOST	Davydov A. Between Pushkin and Dostoevsky: poem "The Gipsies" and comments on it // Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost – 2018. – Issue 5 C. 180-192 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://ons-journal.ru/S086904990000395-6-1 (circulation date: 26.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S086904990000395-6
MLA	Davydov, Alexis "Between Pushkin and Dostoevsky: poem "The Gipsies" and comments on it." Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost 5 (2018):180-192. DOI: 10.31857/S086904990000395-6
APA	Davydov A. (2018). Between Pushkin and Dostoevsky: poem "The Gipsies" and comments on it. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost (5), pp.180-192 DOI: 10.31857/S086904990000395-6

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