L’Orient de Pouchkine au cœur de l’imaginaire russe
Journal: Slavica Occitania
Year: 2012

Pushkin’s Orient at the heart of the Russian imagination The Crimea, the Transcaucasian region and Siberia all inspired Pushkin. These regions, perceived as «oriental» were also part of the imaginary landscape of Russian identity as it was constructed at the time. The poet’s discovery of the Orient is part both of the Eastern rennaissance ongoing in Western Europe at the time, and of ancient Russia’s literary tradition, which included a number of descriptions of Eastern frontier regions. However