MILITARY TRAVELOGUE AND ITS ROLE IN A RUSSIAN WRITER’S SELF-DETERMINATION IN THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL SPACE
The article considers the military travelogue as a new stage of travel literature of the first half of the XIX century. Basing on the analysis of F. N. Glinka’s “Letters of a Russian Officer”, the author attempts to identify the features that distinguish the military travelogue from other travel literature of the early XIX century. The article also reveals how the Patriotic War of 1812 and the foreign campaigns of the Russian army influenced the Russian writer who participated in military events, namely his new positioning in the European cultural space. The author comes to the conclusion that the cross-cutting motive of the military travelogue - the changing role of Russia in the pan-European context - finds its continuation in the travelogues of the 1840-1850s.