K. V. Anisimov

Judging “Things as They Really Are”: Dersu Uzala, A. S. Pushkin, L. N. Tolstoy, and Semiotics

This article explores the artistic understanding and cultural imagination of a newly acquired region during its territorial integration. In V. K. Arsenyev’s case, this is the southern part of the Russian Far East. The focus is on the dualism characteristic of such historical experience — that of the traveler, symbolizi...