Egorova, Kseniya B. Petersburg Flood of 1824: Eschatological Narratives and Their Visual Representation

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2212-04-25
Title Petersburg Flood of 1824: Eschatological Narratives and Their Visual Representation
Author email k.b.egorova@spbu.ru
About author Egorova, Kseniya B. — Ph. D., associate professor. Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 199034. ORCID: 0000-0002-4050-6888
In the section Russian Art in the 18th–19th Centuries DOI10.18688/aa2212-04-25
Year 2022 Volume 12 Pages 342–350
Type of article RAR Index UDK 82; 76 Index BBK 85.15
Abstract

The article deals with the formation of eschatological narratives around the St. Petersburg flood of 1824. The literary and visual material shows how eschatological plots were created in Russian culture under the influence of the European tradition. A hypothesis is put forward that the visual history of the St. Petersburg flood can only be considered in connection with and in the context of the European history of painting, in relation to well-known compositions and plots. The eschatological narrative about the death of Peter’s creation, the new Babylon, from the Neva waters should be considered not in the gospel tradition of the coming Apocalypse, but through the prism of Byron’s story about the last Assyrian king Sardanapal, which, obviously, influenced the idea of the 3rd part of Mickiewicz’s Dziads, who first proposed the apocalyptic interpretation of regular St. Petersburg natural disasters.

The reported study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, project number 21-78-10052.
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Reference Egorova, Kseniya B. Petersburg Flood of 1824: Eschatological Narratives and Their Visual Representation. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 12. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2022, pp. 342–350. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2212-04-25
Publication Article language russian
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