Abstract
The article presents the attitude of prisoners of the past centuries in Russia to punishment, their fate, which they represented in the form of song creation and various metaphorical images. These images have passed through time and are associated with the perception of the prison as a special space. Therefore the authors use already described examples how a prison could look at the end of the Middle Ages.
Highlights
Prison as an enclosed space probably implies the prisoners' struggle with sensory and social deprivation and their attempts to overcome the distressing imprisonment state through creativity
In Russia heterodoxy was punished by imprisonment in monastic prisons
The concept of a prison and punishment is well represented in the oral songwriting of Russian prisoners of the nineteenth century
Summary
Prison as an enclosed space probably implies the prisoners' struggle with sensory and social deprivation and their attempts to overcome the distressing imprisonment state through creativity. In Russia heterodoxy was punished by imprisonment in monastic prisons. Since in ancient times in such prisons the wards were replaced with pits in earth, the creativity of the prisoners could not be preserved in the form of graffiti as it was in Europe where there were many records and drawings on the walls of former prisons. The concept of a prison and punishment is well represented in the oral songwriting of Russian prisoners of the nineteenth century. The songs are guessed religious images and metaphors
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