« Vous m'avez demandé de ne pas faire de brouillon » : lettres inédites du prince Boris Golitsyne (1789-1790) et correspondance russe francophone
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2009
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Elena Gretchanaïa, « « Vous m'avez demandé de ne pas faire de brouillon » : lettres inédites du prince Boris Golitsyne (1789-1790) et correspondance russe francophone », La Revue russe, ID : 10.3406/russe.2009.2362
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Prince Boris Golicyn's unpublished Letters and the problem of French-written Russian correspondence. The article focuses on a Russian correspondence written entirely in French and aims at defining its place in the cultural context of its time. For Boris Vladimirovich Golicyn (1769-1813), French is both the language of intimacy and a literary language, instrumental in providing the author with formulas and clichés, useful for the expression of this intimacy. By appearing as almost a Frenchman in his letters, Boris Golicyn embodies the intercultural situation of Russia at the end of the 18th century. This does not mean, however, that French-speaking Russian noblemen ceased to be Russian. They mastered both cultures, freely moving from one to the other, which allowed them to be critical towards one or the other when needed, and to play with both cultures' peculiarities.