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This study was carried out at IWL RAS with a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 22-18-00051), https://rscf.ru/project/22-18-00051/

Abstract:

The preface reveals the conceptual basis of the collective monograph “Estate and Dacha in the Literature of the Soviet Era: Losses and Gains” — the 8^th issue of the scientific book series “Russian Estate in a Global Context”, as well as provides an overview and analysis of the topics and issues of its sections and the articles contained therein. Promising directions for further work within the framework of the series are outlined. With the whole set of articles, the collective monograph should answer the questions posed in its title: losses in the representations of the literary estate can be considered the departure of classical and Silver age traditions with their authenticity and personal experience of estate life; gains — the development of new modifications of the “estate topos” (estate-museum, collective writer’s estate, estate-sanatorium, etc.), the emergence and development of new themes (estate as Kitezh, estate as a refuge, estate and war, estate and forest, etc.), as well as the transformation of the “dacha topos” into a promising, widely branched cultural strategy and the formation of an original “dacha myth” on its basis.