CALCULATION OF EVENTS IN THE NOVEL “THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER” ACCORDING TO THE CALENDAR

Abstract

The article analyzes a problem of time in the final artistic work of A.S. Pushkin “The Captain’s Daughter”. It is assumed that, the same as in the poetic novel “Eugene Onegin”, the prose novel is “calculated according to the calendar”. It turns out that the calendar-time structures of the course of novel events are closely connected with the biography and previous work of the poet-historiographer, as well as with the history of the nobility and other estates of post-Petrine Russia. As a result, such concrete historical approach to reading Pushkin’s text contributes to its more multifaceted deep understanding, thanks to which the poet’s work is actively included in the discussion of current problems of our time, which, in turn, once again testifies to the enduring importance of Pushkin’s genius as a historian who thought in artistic images.