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Pushkin, Radishchev, and the Legacy of Civic Sentimentalism
Sun, November 23, 8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST), -Abstract
“Pushkin, Radischev, and the Legacy of Civic Sentimentalism” considers how Pushkin assessed the Decembrists’ legacy after the uprising, a period during which he had made a public alliance with the new tsar Nicholas I. In journalistic pieces about Alexander Radishchev from the 1830s, Pushkin attempted to advocate for clemency towards the surviving conspirators while also denigrating their politics as naively sentimental. Drawing on scholarship by Yury Lotman and Igor Nemirovsky, I argue that these works show that Pushkin saw the Decembrists as civic sentimentalists, or those who believe that virtuous feelings produce virtuous actions.