{"id":688,"date":"2020-02-14T05:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=688"},"modified":"2020-02-16T21:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T21:57:50","slug":"a-new-russia-under-peter-the-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/nkhumalo\/a-new-russia-under-peter-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Russia under Peter the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bronze Horseman: A Tale of Petersburg<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Alexander Puskin serves as continuation of similar texts we\u2019ve covered on Russian national consciousness and pride, specifically Russian glory and cunning, and historical counts that seem like myths. The mythic language is so strong that the narrative begins with a disclaimer that the story is based on trut . Pushkin\u2019s use of analogy to describe the birth of St. Petersburg contained poetic language reminiscent of those in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tale of Bygone Years<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This lyrical element is especially present in the descriptions of the capital\u2019s shift from Moscow to St. Petersburg. He writes,\u00a0 \u201cFrom swamps and gloomy forest prison,\/ Crown gem and marvel of the North.\u201d The words \u2018swamps\u2019, \u2018gloomy\u2019, and \u2018prison\u2019 effectively demonstrate the dismal attitude of Russians at this time towards Moscow. At this time, Moscow is the location of the end of Rurik\u2019s lineage, so it makes sense that pushkin would view it so negatively. \u2018Prison\u2019 especially works to exhibit the way that Russian feel held back by Moscow\u2019s somber past. Pushkin\u2019s description of Moscown as a \u2018Crown gem\u2019 and \u2018marvel\u2019 work to illustrate the shift that Peter the Great\u2019s reforms brought to the Russian people. Peter and his city renewed Russian\u2019s sense of pride and glory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bronze Horseman: A Tale of Petersburg by Alexander Puskin serves as continuation of similar texts we\u2019ve covered on Russian national consciousness and pride, specifically Russian glory and cunning, and historical counts that seem like myths. The mythic language is so strong that the narrative begins with a disclaimer that the story is based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-5-the-founding-of-st-petersburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}