Natural and Urban Spaces of Little Russia and Novorossiya in the Travelogue On the Glorified River by N. S. Filippov
Journal: Two centuries of the Russian classics
Year: 2025

The paper examines the representation of natural and urban spaces of Little Russia and Novorossiya in the travelogue On the Glorified River by N. S. Filippov. The research reveals the author’s reliance on the ideas of the idyllic and natural Little Russian topos in Russian literature of the 19th century. It gighlights intertextuality of Filippov’s travelogue, in particular, the influence of Gogol’s text on it. Sky and river topoi are attributed to the natural spaces of the work. The image of the