Двустишия А. П. Сумарокова как элемент светского досуга в XVIII веке

Abstract

Sumarokov’s distichs — biletsy — were humorous additions to the New and Amusing Lottery Game (1764). They and the Tickets by I. S. Barkov that parodied them seem to be the only genre of Russian Classicism that did not have a Western European prototype. For his private leisure, rather than for the public use, Sumarokov had compiled Fortune-Telling Book of Love (1774) from the verses of his own tragedies. In the middle of the 19th century, the book encouraged n. A. Markevich to write a parody on the love poetry of the 18th century.