Pushkin's context of Boris Sadovsky's play "Lisa"

Abstract

The object of research in this article is the mystery play "Lisa", as well as the ideologically related "Blokovskaya" hoax "Soldier's Tale" and the story "Arakcheevskaya joke". The purpose of the work is to identify the Pushkin context in the play "Lisa", to clarify the nature of B.A. Sadovsky's perception of the Pushkin tradition. The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as the evolution of B. Sadovsky's perception of Pushkin's personality and his work, designates Pushkin's contexts in the mystery play "Lisa". The appeal to this work is motivated by Sadovsky's use of the image of the Pushkin era without mentioning the poet's name. The article uses comparative typological, biographical methods, as well as the method of intertextual analysis. A special contribution of the author is a study of the unexplored work of B. Sadovsky, which makes it possible to significantly clarify the nature of his creative evolution, to highlight the features of the writer's worldview in the post-revolutionary period. In the course of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that genetically the play "Lisa" is connected with such works as "The Arakcheev joke" and "The Soldier's Tale", written from anti-Bolshevik positions. It is proved that the concept of Arakcheev's personality in them is determined by Pushkin's judgments about Arakcheev, expressed on the pages of the Diary of 1833-1835 and in a letter to his wife (April 20-22, 1834). The study was carried out as part of the preparation of the scientific edition of the complete works of B.A. Sadovsky.