BEZHIN MEADOW AS A UNIVERSAL IMAGE OF THE RUSSIAN WORLD (LITERARY CLASSICS, 20TH CENTURY CINEMA, 21TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY)

Abstract

Through the analysis of classical literary work of the 19th century, cinema of the 20th century, photo album of the 21st century it the authors discover that a universal image of the Russian world – Bezhin meadow – has arisen and is continuing to develop in Russian culture. The image is based on Turgenev’s philosophy of nature and a complex synthesis of words and images. It is shown that the concept of the unity of the world (nature and man) embodied in the story of I.S. Turgenev is inherited in the A.G. Rzheshevsky script. This concept determines unique poetics of the scripts chronotope and emphasizes its qualities of “everywhere” and “always”. S.M. Eizhenshtein bases his film on the A.G. Rzheshevsky script and depicts Bezhin meadow in the reminiscence field of holy history. A.P. Khoroshilova starts with the specific picturesqueness of the Turgenev story, the synthesized image of S.M. Eisenstein on new historical material and in new visual forms implements the idea of the unity of the Russian world by resolving the conflict between man and nature, everyday and eternal. This is the process of forming an image in Russian culture, the universality of which manifested itself and increased in its movement from era to era and is fixed in the well-known name “Bezhin Meadow”.