TY - JOUR AU - Penskaya, Yelena N. PY - 2017/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Discourse of a Historian and Administrator in Yevgeny Feoktistov’s Notes from What Has Been Heard and Seen JF - ENTHYMEMA JA - ENTHYMEMA VL - 0 IS - 19 SE - Saggi DO - 10.13130/2037-2426/9448 UR - https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/9448 SP - 144-150 AB - <div class="page"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>There is no unambiguous perspective on Russia’a </span><span>cultural and political processes of the second half of the 19th century. Their patterns are largely approached through the lens of the key figures that had a determining influence at a relevant period. Yevgeny Feoktistov was a writer, a journalist, a staff member of the magazines </span><span>Sovremennik </span><span>and </span><span>Otechestvennye Zapiski</span><span>, the editor of </span><span>Russkaya Rech </span><span>and </span><span>Journal of the Ministry of National Enlightenment </span><span>(1871</span><span>–</span><span>1883), later a censor, the privy councillor (since January 1, 1883), the head of the Central Administration for Printing Press for almost 13 years (1883</span><span>–</span><span>1896) (</span><span>Russia’s censor</span><span>-in-chief), a senator (from May 23, 1896 until his death), and </span><span>part of Russia’s administrative elite. He came an impressive way of personal </span><span>growth that brought him from the ranks of active liberals and </span><span>Otechestvennye Zapiski </span><span>journalists to </span><span>the position of Russia’s censor</span><span>-in-chief, who signed the order to close that same magazine twenty years later. His biography is partly captured in </span><span>Ivan Goncharov’s novel </span><span>The Same Old Story</span><span>. </span><span>This article investigates the modifications of linguistic peculiarities in Feoktistov’s essays </span><span>and statements and draws his linguistic portrait, </span><span>which doesn’t only explain the patterns of his </span><span>behavior and everyday style but also sheds light on the shady sides of the events that Russia witnessed in the 1860s</span><span>–</span><span>1890s and shapes new optics of the elite circles Feoktistov was part of. </span></p></div></div></div> ER -