Slavicisms in the Russian poetry of the 18th century (designation of urban space in the Russian poetic language)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article presents the issues of the Russian poetic language formation. The study of the usages of the biblical word стогна (стогны) ‘street, square, inner-city space’ in the Russian poetic language by the means of the lexicographic method shows, that this Slavic word was introduced first into poetic circulation by Mikhail Lomonosov as an element of the odic topic. Thus, Mikhail Lomonosov was the first to carry out the “transfer” of the biblical word from the sacred Slavic language to the poetic one. The word continues to be actively used by the best poets of the 18th century – Vasiliy Petrov, Vasily Maikov, M Mikhail Muravyov, Mikhail Kheraskov, Gavriil Derzhavin and others. Further, this Slavic word was inherited by the poetic language of the 1st half of the 19th century, including Vasily Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Yevgeny Baratynsky poetry, it was actively used by Alexander Pushkin in ‟Ruslan and Ludmila” and ‟The Bronze Horseman”. Due to its high poetic expressiveness, it is preserved in the Russian poetic language to this day (Andrei Bitov, Yuriy Ryashentsev, Ol’ga Zondberg etc.), although it is mistakenly marked by some dictionaries of the Russian language as ‟obsolete”.
Author: Sergey S. Volkov
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409621429