Article

Name: The Captivity Motif’s Transformation in the Russian Literature Devoted to the Caucasian War. The Plot and the Chronotopos

Authors: Bagration-Mukhraneli Irina L.

Moscow Psychological-Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

In the section The Plot and the Methods of Its Description

Abstract: The article deals with the captivity motif which is forming the plot with large thematic diversity. The Caucasian prisoner is represented in Russian Literature in romantic poems, narratives, novels, stories. Thematic unity, the same topos and captivity motives show style and art variety in fiction, non-fiction and popular Russian Literature, connected with Caucasian War.

Keywords: captivity, freedom, war, the caucasus, style, romanticism, poem, novel, story, epos

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