Do not wait for Belkin…: unfulfilled Trojchatka by A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, V.F. Odoevsky

The unfulfilled project of the literary miscellany Trojchatka can be considered as one of the most difficult and mysterious projects in the history of Pushkin's epoch culture. In this miscellany, planned as a section of a three-storeyed house with different scenes at each store, the writers wanted to combine a story by Rudyj Panko about the attic, a story by Irinej Gomozejko about the reception-room and a story by Ivan Petrovich Belkin about the basement. Our research is dedicated to the creation history of this project, which can be considered as a unique phenomenon in Russian literature. This project had not been fulfilled as one miscellany (as it was planned) but we can say that Trojchatka existed not in one book, but as a special metatext combination. First, Trojchatka was formed by the cycles of stories, written at the beginning of 1830s - these cycles had a similar type of narration structure. The interaction of these three writers continued in 1830s: among their works we can find different types of the socalled unorganised trojchatkas- writers did not do them on purpose, but they had a lot of similar features: subject matters, poetic style, genres, communication models in texts. So we can conclude that a special semiotic model of Trojchatka was formed in the middle of 1830s and its main concept was the Home in different meanings: the home as the synonym of the fate - the fate of a person in reality; or the home of Russian literature in whole. The project of this miscellany can be compared with a number of similar cultural phenomena. First, it can be considered as an opposition to the trade triumvirate of Bulgarin - Grech - Senkovsky. On the one hand, the idea of such kind of miscellany was important to writers' evolution, because they were constantly interacting. On the other hand, Trojchatka played a very important role in the literary process; this project is significant for the history of Pushkin's interrelations with his contemporaries, the history of Pushkin's circle; and for the evolution of literary miscellany types from 1820s till 1840s.

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