About the author:
Maria S. Akimova — PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25a, 121069 Moscow, Russia; Senior Researcher, Museum of Zelenograd, Gogol str., 11B, 124575 Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia.
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Abstract:
P.A. Vyazemsky’s prose and poetry represent an artistic vision of the world. Meanwhile, they are filled with “various antiquities, natural curiosities and modern celebrities”. As a traveler and writer of life, P.A. Vyazemsky during his long life collected and recorded information that adds much to our knowledge of local history. As a thinker, he raised issues that would later be developed by local history science: memory and the spirit of the place, preservation of memory and protection of monuments, geographical determinism, etc. As a powerful theorist of romanticism, Vyazemsky articulated the discoveries and achievements of the Russian romantic school, taking a step towards the ethnographic literature of the next generation.