"HOME OF GENTRY" ("DVORYANSKOYE GNEZDO") BY I.S. TURGENEV: POETICS OF TEMPLE-RELATED STORYLINES
The article focuses on some patterns of the temple poetics' manifestation in “Home of Gentry” (“Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo”) by I.S. Turgenev. The framework of the novel is marked by a liturgic and temple structure with the emphasis on church services: two liturgies and vespers which are crucial for the development of the storyline and which prove to end up “in a monastery”. The novel poetics is notable for its substantial symbolics which manifests temple and liturgic imagery (temple, icon, toll, prayer). The imagery mentioned above contributes to the fact of this very novel (unlike other novels) to become the most “spring related”, “sunny and radiant”, “light and Easter-related”. The image of holiness of the Russian Erath reflected in I.S. Turgenev's “A Sportsman's Sketches” (“Zapiski okhotnika”) has been widened in his novel “Home of Gentry” (“Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo”). “Home of Gentry” (“Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo”) reveals the image of holiness through historic retrospective as well as through the reference to the genres of Old Russian literature (military literature, annals). In this novel one also observes sacralized liturgic and Christocentric image of nature. In his novel the author seems to poeticize something “quiet”, “inexpressive” and “uncivilized” (gardens gone wild, nature). One can feel cacophony between the “mild-tempered” central character and Russian nature. Turgenev's “natural images” are related not only to psychological properties of the characters but also to the manifestation of the experience attributed to the communion with God. Liza turns to Christianity as a source to answer her personal question about life and death, about immortality of soul but not as a source of culture, history and morality (unlike Lavretsky). Storylines of Liza and Agafya Vlasyevna have been shaped in line with hagiographic toposes. In the novel “Home of Gentry” (“Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo”) the plot of “death and revival” is rather intrinsic if we take the characters who feel their attachment to the Russian people everyday life. Love to God and godliness of the characters are supported by their anthroponyms. Therefore one can feel some references to the features of God. The storyline of Liza Kalitina is correlated to iconographic sample of “The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary”. Within the novel temple-related storylines have been shaped due to temple motives. Meanwhile the motives of confession and rejection of pursuit of earth-bound happiness have appeared to be crucial ones.