Немытая Россия (About a Possible Source of the Lermontov’s Formula)


2019. № 4, 77-81

Anatoly F. Zhuravlev, Institute for Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia, Moscow), afzhuravlev@yandex.ru

Abstract:

The author proposes a hypothesis about the origins of the expression немытая Россия (literally “unwashed Russia”) in the famous poem by Mikhail Lermontov (1841). The contextual semantics of an adjective turns out to be more complex than it is accepted to think.

Keywords:
Lermontov
Marlinsky
poetic speech
reminiscence
vocabulary
connotation
syntactic transformation
intercultural contacts
semantic orientalism

For citation:

Zhuravlev A. F. Немытая Россия (About a Possible Source of the Lermontov’s Formula). Russian Speech = Russkaya Rech’. 2019. No. 4. Pp. 77–81. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170005364-9.