Semiotic Space of the Russian North Culture
The semiotic space of the Russian North culture includes the Valaam and Solovetsky archipelagos, as well as toponyms characterizing the spiritual and material existence of the Transfiguration monasteries, natural objects, flora and fauna of the region. The relevance of the research is conditioned by...
| Published in: | Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Russian |
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Московский гуманитарный университет
2017
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| Online Access: | https://journals.mosgu.ru/zpu/article/view/587 https://doi.org/10.17805/zpu.2017.4.14 |
| Summary: | The semiotic space of the Russian North culture includes the Valaam and Solovetsky archipelagos, as well as toponyms characterizing the spiritual and material existence of the Transfiguration monasteries, natural objects, flora and fauna of the region. The relevance of the research is conditioned by an increasing interest in spiritually moral, historically cultural and landscape space of the Russian North, the spirituality of which is determined by the fundamental role of the Solovetsky and Valaam Orthodox monasteries. The aim of this article is to determine the cultural and historical, toponymical, and landscape spaces of the Russian North. The research tasks are to correlate the spiritual culture of northern monasteries with the material and natural culture of the Russian North; to educe the role of the mundane names of Valaam and Solovetsky monasteries’ cultural landscapes.The article presents the results of an empiric research of the geocultural space of the Valaam and Solovetsky monasteries. In order to determine the Solovki and Valaam semiotic space the following methods are used: collection of information, linguistic analysis of the names of the geographical objects located on the islands of Valaam and Solovetsky archipelagos discovered during field research and from different sources; the synthesis of different approaches: philosophical, historical, geographical, religious, and literary. The study of the Valaam toponymy of Russian origin was conducted in 2000–2012 and published in scientific articles and in the monograph "Valaam: The City of Earth — The City of Heaven" (Mikhailova, 2013). In this article the classification of toponyms characterizing the Valaam nature is published for the first time. The next step of our research is the study of the semantics and structure of toponym components characterizing the economic activity of the Solovetsky monastery. Field, archival and other studies were carried out by the author on the Solovetsky archipelago islands in 2012–2016 and published in scientific ... |
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