Linguistic Features of the Depiction of Peter the Great in Chinese Electronic Literature
This article focuses on the study of one of the aspects of the modern imagological ideas of the Chinese about Russia - the figure of the outstanding Russian emperor Peter the Great in the Chinese segment of the global Internet. The novelty of the article is due to the lack of works on this topic in Russia. For the first time to study the image of Peter the Great (one of the brightest symbols of Russia) in China, works of Chinese network literature are taken as an object. The article offers a brief reference that reveals the phenomenon of network literature. The texts of the novels by Chinese authors who wrote about Peter the Great were selected for analysis from specialized network platforms. Internet resources are taken for this study because of their openness, free accessibility and potential massive impact on the democratic strata of the Chinese population. The presence of several basic stereotypes about him is established, associated with the romantic interpretation of the tsar's relationship with Marta Skavronskaya, a girl of low social origin, the toughness of his character, his desire for military conquests, etc. These and other features, as a rule, have a real historical basis, but can be brought to the forefront or even exaggerated due to the influence of a special tradition in the assessment of the state activities of Peter the Great that has developed in Chinese historiography.