Dacha-estate topos “Russian Finland”: “White Night” of Leonid Andreev

About the author

Lyudmila F. Lutsevich, DSc in Philology, Professor, Warsaw University, Krakowskie Przedmieście, 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6340-2598

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Abstract

Based on the analysis of “documents of personal origin”, the article outlines some of the features of the dacha-estate topos “Russian Finland”. Attention is focused on the dacha-estate topos, “created” by a creative personality. Accordingly, it is con ceived not only as a realization of the concept of comfort for life and work, but also as an opportunity to express some kind of “topos of a dream”. The article is based on observations concerning Leonid Andreev’s dacha “White Night.”