“Let it be Empty”: “The Curse of Eudokia” and its Reception in Russian Culture of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the leitmotif of the theme of the end of St. Petersburg is the so-called “curse of Evdokia”: “Petersburg to be empty.” This is a contamination of two quotes from the Petrine era. Both of them, when they appeared, did not have any distinct eschatological sound...
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2023-03-01
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| Series: | Литературный факт |
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| Online Access: | http://litfact.ru/images/2023-27/07_Dushenko.pdf |