Abstract
These notes provide a historical-cultural commentary on two passages of Pushkin’s “Journey to Arzrum:” a Latin description of anomalous genitalia of “a sham hermaphrodite” discovered among Turkish prisoners of war, and a night scene of the interrogation of captured Turks which Pushkin compares to Salvator Rosa’s paintings. Both the pseudo-medical description and the allusion are contextualized: Pushkin’s interest in hermaphroditism is connected to the concepts of French Encyclopedists and their followers, while the allusion to Rosa’s “terrible” pictures is explained through the Romantic perception of the painter as a cult figure.
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