| Annotation |
The paper focuses on the representation of Russian cultural geography in the poetry collection “The Great
Checkpoint” by the method of thematic modeling, which combines poems by poets from different regions dedicated
to the war in Donbass 2014–2022. Thematic modeling presents a topic as a set of keywords expressing it.
The topic of Russia as a geographical reality was chosen for the study. The names of geographical objects have
been selected as keywords, which according to the theory of cultural landscape, represent a text as a system
of signs referring to the meanings of culture. The landscape acts as a textual message of culture to itself, overcoming
gaps and preserving images in cultural memory. The principle of the collection formation is chronological.
Each year of the war is represented by a special section, and the poems of the same poets can be included in
different sections. The whole book acts as a single collection of texts, which was searched. An analysis of the occurrence
of geographical names in the collection of texts shows that the book reveals the topic of the borders of
Russia, presents many topographical objects of its European part, with one exception Siberia is not involved, two
seas – the Black and the Baltic ‒ are widely reflected, Moscow is very little represented as opposed to the frequently
appearing St. Petersburg. Russia is represented in the semantic space as the Third Rome, the Country of the Soviets and the Empire. Ukraine and Donbass have not been analyzed separately, but it can be indicated
beforehand that such topos as Odessa and Kiev stand out on the territory of Ukraine, and in Kiev – Maidan and
Babi Yar, as symbols of the current military confrontation; from the Donbass cities, the book presents cities such
as Donetsk, Lugansk, Mariupol, Lisichansk. The perspectives of the future research are outlined in the conclusion:
religion in the collection, Russian culture and literature in the book, as well as foreign cultural geography. |
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