Images of the Russian People and Russia in the Contemporary English Novel
Journal: Quaestio Rossica
Year: 2016

The mythological image of Russia in English fiction has been shaped and repeated over the course of many centuries. Russia was traditionally viewed as a distant, cold, unpredictable, and wild country. The aim of the article is to examine a new Russian cultural discourse that first appeared in English fiction in the early twentieth century and developed during the last decades of the twentieth and the first decade of the twenty-first centuries. Russia’s history in the twentieth century had a powe