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1880 speech by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"
Dostoyevsky's Pushkin Speech
" was a speech delivered by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
in honour of the
Russian
poet
Alexander Pushkin
on 20 June [
O.S.
8 June] 1880 at the unveiling of the Pushkin Monument in
Moscow
.
[1]
The
speech
is considered a crowning achievement of his final years and elevated him to the rank of a prophet while cementing his stature further as the greatest contemporary Russian writer.
[2]
The Pushkin Speech, which Dostoyevsky gave less than a year before his death, was delivered at the
Strastnaya Square
after a two-hour religious service at the monastery across the street.
[3]
The address praised Pushkin as a beloved poet, a prophet, and the embodiment of Russia's national ideals.
[4]
There are some who note that the speech was not really about Pushkin but about Russia, and also Dostoyevsky himself.
[4]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Levitt, Marcus C. (1989).
Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880
. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp.
124?125
.
ISBN
978-0801422508
.
- ^
Sekirin, Peter (1997).
The Dostoevsky Archive: Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist from Contemporaries' Memoirs and Rare Periodicals, Most Translated Into English for the First Time, with a Detailed Lifetime Chronology and Annotated Bibliography
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 238.
ISBN
0786402644
.
- ^
Moss, Walter (2002).
Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
. London: Anthem Press. p. 219.
ISBN
9780857287632
.
- ^
a
b
Cassedy, Steven (2005).
Dostoevsky's Religion
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 80.
ISBN
0804751374
.
External links
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