“Fidelity,” a Tragedy by O. F. Bergholz: the Concept and the Genre
Journal: ПРОБЛЕМЫ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ ПОЭТИКИ
Year: 2025

The pretext of an early version of O. F. Bergholz’s work entitled “The City of Glory. A Dramatic Poem” (1948) and the final version of this text, which received the nomination “Fidelity. Tragedy” (1954), was the essay “Leningrad — Sevastopol” (1944). The title and the subtitle explicated the author’s new intention, shifting attention from the heroic topos to the value system of the characters. The word ‘loyalty’, correlated with the root lexeme ‘trust’, and the subtitle express the author’s posi