Your shopping cart is empty.
Log in

Messenger of darkness (The essence and image of the Impostor in the tragedy of A.S. Pushkin “Boris Godunov”)

B.A. Kurkin
$2.50

 

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.1-20.080

 

Kurkin Boris A.,

Doctor of Law, Professor, Tambov State Technical University,

Expert of the Foundation for Humanitarian Studies of the Government

of the Russian Federation,

Member of the Writers’ Union of Russia

e-mail: kurkinba@gmail.com, kurkin.boris2012@yandex.ru

 

The article is analyzing the image of the Impostor’s character in “Boris Godunov” tragedy by Alexander Pushkin. It is noted that with a closer, adequate historical-philological and theological approach to the epithets which the principal characters of the tragedy use to describe the Impostor,  the latter emerges as a “persona inferna” (an infernal mask in Latin) — a power-mad ambitious climber who sold his soul to the Devil, a symbol and tool of the Time of Troubles. The author analyzed works of national and foreign authors who discussed the subject of the Impostor’s character. The article addresses works of the Holy Fathers of Orthodox Church explaining the essence and meaning of such concepts as “Enemy-pleaser”, “heretic” and “impostor” in particular.

Keywords: еnemy-pleaser, heretic, impostor.

 

References

1. Kostomarov N.I. Smutnoe vremia Moskovskogo gosudarstva v nachale XVII stoletiia. M.: Charli, 1994.

2. Gil'ferding A.F. Onezhskiia byliny zapisannyia Aleksandrom Fedorovichem Gil'ferdingom letom 1871 goda. SPb.: Tip. Imperatorskoi Akademii nauk, 1873.

3. Polevoi N.A. Boris Godunov. Sochinenie Aleksandra Pushkina. SPb., 1831 // Pushkin v prizhiznennoi kritike (1831–1833) / red. E.O. Larionova. SPb.: Gosudarstvennyi Pushkinskii teatral'nyi tsentr v Sankt-Peterburge, 2003.

4. Batiushkov F. Pushkin i Rasin (“Boris Godunov” i “Athalie”) // Pamiati Pushkina: sb. st. prepodavatelei i slushatelei istoriko-filologicheskago fakul'teta Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago universiteta. SPb., 1900.

5. Batiushkov F. Boris Godunov // Biblioteka velikikh pisatelei / pod red. S.A. Vengerova. “Pushkin” T. II. Izdanie Brokgauz-Efron. SPb., 1908.

6. Bestuzhev-Riumin K.N. Pis'ma Konstantina Nikolaevicha Bestuzheva-Riumina o Smutnom vremeni. SPb.: Tip. M.M. Stasiulevicha, 1898.

7. Firsov N.N. Pushkin kak istorik // Biblioteka velikikh pisatelei / pod red. S.A. Vengerova. “Pushkin” T. VI. Izdanie Brokgauz-Efron. Petrograd, 1915.

8. Darskii D. Malen'kiia tragedii Pushkina. M.: Moskovskaia khudozhestvennaia pechatnia, 1915.

9. Blagoi D. Sotsiologiia tvorchestva Pushkina. Etiudy. 2-e izd., dop. M.: Mir, 1931.

10. Filippova N.F. Narodnaia drama A.S. Pushkina “Boris Godunov”. M.: Kniga, 1972.

11. Karpov A.A. “Boris Godunov” A.S. Pushkina // Analiz dramati-cheskogo proizvedeniia: mezhvuz. sb. / pod red. V.M. Markovicha. L.: Izd-vo Leningradskogo universiteta, 1988.

12. Lotman L.M. Istoriko-literaturnyi kommentarii // Pushkin A.S. “Boris Godunov”. SPb.: Gumanitarnoe agentstvo “Akademicheskii Proekt”, 1996.

13. Bernshtein D. “Boris Godunov”. M.: Zhurnal'no-gazetnoe ob"edinenie, 1934. (Literaturnoe nasledstvo. T. 16/18).

14. Gurevich A.M. Istoriia i sovremennost' v “Borise Godunove” // Izvestiia AN SSSR. Seriia: Literatura i iazyk. 1984. T. 43. No. 3.

15. Gorodetskii B.P. Tragediia A.S. Pushkina “Boris Godunov”: kommentarii. L.: Prosveshchenie. Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1969.

16. Pokrovskii M.N. Russkaia istoriia v samom szhatom ocherke. 5-e izd. M.: Uchpedgiz, 1934.

17. Fomichev S.A. Smekhovoi mir “Komedii o tsare Borise i o Grishke Otrep'eve”. M.: Znak, 2007.

18. Pushkin A.S. Pis'mo o “Borise Godunove” // Sobr. soch.: v 10 t. T. 6: Kritika i publitsistika. M.: GIKhL, 1962.

19. Povest' kniazia Ivana Mikhailovicha Katyreva-Rostovskago po spisku Imperatorskoi publichnoi biblioteki Q. 4. No. 154 // RIB. T. 13.

20. Rozen E.F. Mnenie barona E.F. Rozena o drame A.S. Pushkina “Boris Godunov” // Pushkin v prizhiznennoi kritike (1831–1833) / red. E.O. Larionova. SPb.: Gosudarstvennyi Pushkinskii teatral'nyi tsentr v Sankt-Peterburge, 2003.

21. Nepomniashchii V.S. Naimenee poniatyi zhanr // Pushkin. Izbrannye raboty 1960–1990-kh gg. T. I: Poeziia i sud'ba. M.: Zhizn' i mysl', 2001.

22. Dunaev M.M. Pravoslavie i russkaia literatura: v 6 ch. Ch. 1, 2. 2-e izd., ispr., dop. M.: Khristianskaia literatura, 2001.

23. Vasilik V.V. Obraz Samozvantsa v narrative pervoi treti XVII v.: Lzhedimitrii kak Iulian Otstupnik i Antikhrist // Trudy istoricheskogo fakul'teta Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta. 2012. Vyp. 10. S. 29–33.

24. Vinogradov V.V. Istoriia slov. 2-e izd. M.: IRIa RAN, 1999.

25. O nastoiashchei bede Moskovskomu gosudarstvu, o Grishke Otrep'eve // RIB. T. 14.

26. Latukhinskaia Stepennaia kniga. 1676 god / red. N.N. Pokrovskii M.: Iazyki slavianskikh kul'tur, 2012.

27. Zhitie tsarevicha Dimitriia Ioannovicha, vnesennoe v Minei Ioanna Miliutina // RIB. T. 13.

28. Slonimskii A.L. Masterstvo Pushkina. 2-e izd., ispr. M.: Gos. izd-vo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1963.

29. Letopis' o mnogikh miatezhakh i razorenii Moskovskogo gosudarstva ot vneshnikh nepriiatelei i ot togdashnikh vremen mnogikh sluchaev, po prestavlenii Tsaria Ioanna Vasil'evicha, o Mezhdugosudarstvovanii po konchinѣ Tsaria Feodora Ioannovicha, po uchinennom ispravlenii knig v tsarstvovanie blagovernago Gosudaria Tsaria Aleksѣia Mikhailovicha v 7163/1655 godu. M., 1788.

30. Skazanie o Grishke Otrep'eve // RIB. T. 13.

31. Vremennik d'iaka Ivana Timofeeva // RIB. T. 13.

32. Sobornyi prigovor protiv cherntsa Otrep'eva… lozhno nazy-vaiushchagosia Tsarevichem Dimitriem (1604 g.) // Sobranie gosudarstvennykh gramot i dogovorov, khraniashchikhsia v gosudarstvennoi kollegii inostrannykh del. Chast' vtoraia, sluzhashchaia dopolneniem k pervoi. M.: Tip. Selivanovskogo, 1819.

33. Il'ichev A.V. Tragediia A.S. Pushkina “Boris Godunov” i letopisnaia traditsiia // VI Mezhdunarodnye Likhachevskie nauchnye chteniia. “Gumanitarnye problemy sovremennoi tsivilizatsii”: materialy sektsionnykh zasedanii. SPb., 2006.

34. Bulgakov S.N. Filosofiia imeni. Parizh: YMCA- PRESS, 1953.

35. Panchenko A.M. Na puti k sekuliarizatsii kul'tury // O russkoi istorii i kul'ture. SPb.: Azbuka, 2000.

36. Turbin V.N. Kharaktery samozvantsev v tvorchestve Pushkina // Nezadolgo do Vodoleia: sb. st. M.: Radiks, 1994.

37. Drevnii paterik ili Dostopamiatnye skazaniia o podvizhnichestve sviatykh i blazhennykh ottsov. Izdanie Afonskogo Panteleimonova monastyria: reprint izdaniia 1899 g. M.: Izd. otdel Moskovskogo Patriarkhata “Planeta”, 1991.

38. Ignatii Brianchaninov sv. Polnoe sobranie tvorenii i pisem: v 8 t. 2-e izd., ispr., dop. M.: Palomnik, 2014. T. 5.

39. Iosif Volotskii prp. Prosvetitel'. Slovo 12. M.: Valaamskii monastyr', 1993.

40. Val'denberg V.E. Drevnerusskie ucheniia o predelakh tsarskoi vlasti. Ocherki russkoi politicheskoi literatury ot Vladimira Sviatogo do kontsa XVII veka. M.: Izd. dom “Territoriia budushchego”, 2006.

41. Tak nazyvaemoe Inoe skazanie // RIB. T. 13.

42. Povest', kako voskhiti nepravdoiu na Moskve tsarskii prestol Borise Godunov" // RIB. T. 13.

43. Levenstim A.A. Sueverie i ugolovnoe pravo. Izsledovanie po istorii russkago prava i kul'tury // Vestnik prava. Zhurnal iuridicheskago obshchestva pri Imperatorskom S.-Peterburgskom universitete. 1906. T. 36. No. 1. S. 291–343.

44. Skazanie de Tu o Dimitrii Samozvantse // Ustrialov N.G. Skazanie sovremennikov o Dimitrii Samozvantse. 3-e izd., ispr. SPb., 1859. Ch. 1.

45. Pro vedunov i eretikov: dokumenty po istorii Moskovskogo tsarstva nachala XVII veka // Istochnik. Dokumenty russkoi istorii. 1998. No. 2 (33).

46. Ioann Tobol'skii sv. (Maksimovich). Iliotropion / predisl. i prim. sv. Aleksandra Gumerova. 3-e izd. M.: Izd-vo Sretenskogo monastyria, 2014.

47. Ioann Damaskin prp. Tochnoe izlozhenie Pravoslavnyia very // Polnoe sobraniie tvorenii sv. Ioanna Damaskina. T. I. SPb.: Izdanie Imperatorskoi S.-Peterburgskoi Dukhovnoi Akademii, 1913.

48. Bokhanov A.N. Boris Godunov. M.: Veche, 2012.