FROM HISTORY OF EPISTOLARY ADDRESSING TO S.S. UVAROV BY RUSSIAN WRITERS

Abstract

The focus of the research is made on one of the genres – “Letters to Ruler” represented by two invariants (“Letter to Tsar” and “Letter to Chief”), having number of subspecies, on material of Russian literature of XIX century, the researcher puts a question not only about the completion of the collection of the surveyed texts, but also about the detailed study of letters as the Tsars and their closest associates, in particular, S. S. Uvarov. The first belongs to the hand of A. S. Pushkin (1831) and contains a critical review of poem by Uvarov. The following two letters (such as letter-declaration) were sent to Uvarov by M. P. Pogodin (1839, 1842) and are devoted to describing and considering the situation of the Slavs in Europe and proposals for their support from Russia. The last letter was written by N. V. Gogol (1842) and is a request to facilitate the publication of “Dead souls”. The research allows to expand the composition of “Letters to Tsar”, and to introduce into scientific circulation previously not described sub-genres of the genre (“letter-review”) and clarify the features of the relationship of Russian writers with high-ranking officials.