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Name: Leo Tolstoy’s Caucasus: Oriental Roots and Textual Parallels of Dolokhov as a Character

Authors: Gevel Olga Evgenyevna

Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: Based on Tolstoy’s diaries, letters and literary works which refer to the Caucasian period of his life and activity, the paper reveals the origin of Dolokhov as a character, along with that of other typologically close characters forming «the Dolokhov-like» paradigm of characters in the writer’s works.

Keywords: leo tolstoy’s prose, literary image, orientalism in literature, letters, diaries

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