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Grigoriy Novitskiy’s Brief Description of The Ostyak People (1715) as a Literary Text
- Authors: Trofimov A.E.1
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- Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 16-25
- Section: Travelogues: Borderline of Nations, Cultures, Literary Genres
- URL: https://manmiljournal.ru/0131-6095/article/view/688111
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2025-2-16-25
- ID: 688111
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The article deals with Grigoriy Novitskiy’s book Brief Description of the Ostyak People, a document of Siberian writing of the early 18th century. Our studies focus on the literary features of the text that formerly has been researched as a source of historical data only. Artistic features of the book, such as references to the medieval literary tradition, versified inclusions, citation of the Ancients etc. are analyzed in the article.
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Artem E. Trofimov
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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