Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philology of
the Siberian Branch of
Russian Academy of Sciences



Siberian Journal of Philology

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Article

Name: On old and new apocrypha (The Mother of God’s Purgatory and «Amnesty» by Yu.O. Dombrovsky)

Authors: Klimova Margarita Nikolaevna

Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Issue 4, 2013	Pages 102-107
UDK: 821.161.	DOI:

Abstract: The paper considers some peculiarities of the traditional Russian beliefs about man’s posthumous fate. A comparison is drawn between the Old Russian Apocrypha «The Mother of God’s Purgatory» and the camp poem «Amnesty» by Yu.O. Dombrovsky (1940), which reflects the development of the idea of «mercy to the fallen» in Russian literature.

Keywords: christianity and literature, eschatology, apocrypha, old russian literature, camp literature

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