Writing the time of troubles
Subtitle: false Dmitry in Russian literature
By: Marcia A. Morris
Series: Unknown nineteenth century; Unknown nineteenth century
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781618118639
Subjects: Kings and rulers in literature; In literature; Russian literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The history of a story; title: Permutations: victim, villain, scavenger; title: Trauerspiel and counterhistory in a time of palace coups; title: The rebel, the sycophant, and the epigones; title: Arbitrariness and expedience meet legality, or the fatal flaws of the well-tempered autocrat; title: The fin de siecle's diminished Dmitrys; title: Conclusions and reintroductions: the re-resurrection of tsarevich Dmitry.