Три контекста «простонародной сказки» А. С. Пушкина «Жених»

Abstract

The aim of the research is to identify the essential contexts of creating the poem “The Groom” by Alexander Pushkin. The article deals with the connection of the poem with the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin”, the genre nature of the poem, the importance and semantic functionality of the heroine’s social characteristics in the poem. The scientific originality lies in determining the links between “The Groom”, “Eugene Onegin”, “robbery” and “mermaid” Pushkin’s cycles, the hypothesis about the detective genre element of the text, the connection between the social characteristics of the heroine and the motives of bargaining in Pushkin’s works of the Mikhailovskoe period. As a result of the research, the connection between “The Groom” and “Eugene Onegin”, mediated by the theme of robbers and a mermaid, was ascertained, the detective genre element in the structure of the poem was revealed, and the connection between the social characteristics of the heroine of “The Groom” and the topic of bargaining in the works of the Mikhailovskoe period was shown.