«ТАБЛИЦА НАРОДОВ» В КОНТЕКСТЕ КУЛЬТУРНЫХ СТЕРЕОТИПОВ О РУССКИХ И НЕМЦАХ РАННЕГО НОВОГО ВРЕМЕНИ

Abstract

The article considers the regional identification of Russia in the European family of peoples with reference to The Table of Nations in the context of the mutual perception of Russians and Germans over a long time. The study is based on the theoretical principles of cognitive history, historical anthropology, and imagology. The methodology of the comparative approach involves internal and external perspectives, as well as two types of stereotypes: as a rule, more positive auto-stereotypes, or self-images, and hetero-stereotypes, or external images. The Styrian Table of Nations (Styrian Völkertafel) published in the Appendix is an exception in this case, since in addition to positive characteristics, the self-description of German-speaking authors contains negative characteristics. The Styrian Völkertafel as a historical source of "grassroots" culture found at the level of the Russian popular print makes it possible analyze ideas and stereotypes about the northern neighbor in two aspects, i.e. visual, with the possibility of turning the visual into the verbal, and textual. The article contains the first ever published translation of the Styrian Völkertafel into Russian.