Abstract
The article discusses personsphere of the Russian literary anecdote of the 18th
century, a genre which served as an alternative to the dominant genres of classicism. Often
functioning as a part of memoir text, the anecdote refl ected the originality of personal beginning
start “private honest” life in the depiction of such signifi cant fi gures of the eighteenth century,
as the fi gure of the Emperor (Empress), court jester, poet and nobleman. The author answers the
question, what personal and socially determined qualities of each of these people have allowed
one to become the hero of anecdotes, and how the originality of national subcultural psychology
of Russian nobility was refl ected in the anecdote.
Keywords
Russian literary anecdote, 18th century, personsphere, subcultural psychology
of the Russian nobility
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