Russian Themes in Jovan Raić’s Epic Boj Zmaa s Orlovi (1791)

Researching Russian themes in Jovan Raić’s epic Boj Zmaja sa Orlovi is a continuation of up-to-date explorations of the language, versification, and intertextual relations of the poem with the texts of the Russian literature. We have approached the epic from a comparative perspective and analyzed it in parallel with The Tale of Igor’s Campaign and Osman by Dživo Gundulić. We were analytically focused on the heraldic symbols, as well as on the mythical and fairy-tale imagination. The images of Russia vary from dominant ones – distinctively commendable, uttered by gods from the Antiquity and shaped by Jovan Rajić, to derogatory ones, uttered by Muhammad. In the epic, the Russian Empire is materialized both through cities (Kherson, Ochakiv, Khotyn) and by stressing tsarina Catherine II and her courageous generals.

Keywords

Russia, epic, history, heraldry, myth, fairy tale, statehood.

Acknowledgment

The study was carried out as part of a project funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia «Aspects of Identity and Their Formation in Serbian Literature» (178005).

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22.03.2023

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29.06.2023

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GOST	Marićević Balać J. Russian Themes in Jovan Raić’s Epic «Boj Zmaa s Orlovi» (1791) // Slavianovedenie – 2023. – Issue 3 C. 104-116 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://slav.jes.su/S0869544X0025879-9-1 (circulation date: 11.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0025879-9
MLA	Marićević Balać, Jelena "Russian Themes in Jovan Raić’s Epic «Boj Zmaa s Orlovi» (1791)." Slavianovedenie 3 (2023):104-116. DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0025879-9
APA	Marićević Balać J. (2023). Russian Themes in Jovan Raić’s Epic «Boj Zmaa s Orlovi» (1791). Slavianovedenie (3), pp.104-116 DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0025879-9

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