Modest Musorgsky and "Boris Godunov": Myths, Realities, and Reconsiderations

1996 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Anna A. Tavis ◽  
Caryl Emerson ◽  
Robert William Oldani
Keyword(s):  
Boris Godunov ◽  
Modest Musorgsky

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov. Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations

Notes ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1331
Author(s):  
Gordon D. McQuere ◽  
Caryl Emerson ◽  
Robert William Oldani
Keyword(s):  
Boris Godunov ◽  
Modest Musorgsky

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
David Shengold ◽  
Caryl Emerson ◽  
Robert William Oldani
Keyword(s):  
Boris Godunov ◽  
Modest Musorgsky

Modest Musorgsky: Boris Godunov

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
R. Bird
Keyword(s):  
Boris Godunov ◽  
Modest Musorgsky

Modest Musorgsky and 'Boris Godunov': Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations

1997 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Stuart Campbell ◽  
Caryl Emerson ◽  
Robert William Oldani
Keyword(s):  
Boris Godunov ◽  
Modest Musorgsky

Musorgsky vs. Musorgsky: The Versions of "Boris Godunov" (II)

1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-272
Author(s):  
Richard Taruskin
Keyword(s):  
Boris Godunov

Persona inferna – a mask from hell. The Pretender in Pushkin’s tragedy Boris Godunov

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-91
Author(s):  
B. A. Kurkin
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Boris Godunov

The author interprets the Pretender in Pushkin’s Boris Godunov as an infernal figure rather than an example of an unsophisticated yet talented and ambitious adventurer. Comparative analysis of 17th-c. Russian historical sources and the tragedy reveals that, in his depiction of the Pretender, Pushkin relied on hagiographies, chronicles, and reminiscences of people with first-hand knowledge, rather than N. Karamzin’s work. The paper examines the qualities attributed to the Pretender by other characters in the tragedy: they concern his personality, official and canonical legal status. The author stresses that the attributions are unbiased reflections on the Pretender’s actions. To this end, the researcher analyses the meaning and significance of the terms ‘rasstriga’ (‘runaway monk’), ‘samozvanets’ (‘pretender’), ‘eretic’ (‘heretic’), ‘postrel’ (‘scamp’), ‘sosud diavolskiy’ (‘vessel of evil’), and ‘vragougodnik’ (‘devil’s accomplice’) in their meanings from the 17th c. and up until Pushkin’s lifetime. Viewed from this angle, the Pushkinian character is presented as a menacing figure hell-bent on getting a Faustian bargain.

Puškin, Karamzin et Boris Godunov

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 759-770
Author(s):  
Catherine Depretto
Keyword(s):  
Boris Godunov
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