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Vladimir I. Melnik
Vladimir I. Melnik, DSc in Philology, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Pererva Theological Seminary, Shosseynaya st., 82 g, 109383 Moscow, Russia.
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Abstract:
I.A. Goncharov’s novel trilogy was conceived in the 1840s as a theocentric work depicting the path of Russia and modern man from “sleep” to “awakening”. By the time of the trip on the frigate “Pallas” (“Pallada”), only “An Ordinary Story” and “Oblomov’s Dream” had been published, but Goncharov’s concept had already taken shape in its entirety. This concept of “sleep” and “awakening” reflected the writer’s impressions of the trip around the world. He declares the theocentric philosophy of history in “The Frigate Pallas” more clearly than in the novels, which unobtrusively, but systematically organizes all the empirical descriptive material of the journey. The article raises the question of the origins of the providential historiosophy underlying Goncharov’s book (first of all, it is German classical philosophy, namely Hegel, Herder, Fichte).