THE CONCEPT OF THE “VOLGA” IN THE NOVEL”MY CHILDREN” BY GUZEL YAKHINA

DOI 10.54151/27382559-23.1pb-68

Sukiasyan K. T.

Keywords: Volga, river, Volga region, Gnadental, farm, coast, Germans, landscape, fairy tales, proverbs, wet nurse.

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of the "Volga" in Guzel Yakhina's novel "My Children". In Russian culture, the main water topos is the majestic Volga. The image of the Volga is a kind of mega-image. This mighty river is glorified by many Russian poets and writers. The theme of the Volga was peculiarly described by Guzel Yakhina. Her novel is an explanation in the love for the great Russian river, which is a significant character of the work, with which it begins and ends with it. In the novel "My Children", the river is presented in the perception of the Germans who moved from Germany to the Volga region in the time of Catherine. For a century and a half, Russian Germans fell in love with the Volga. For them, she is the main natural entity, the object of worship, the breadwinner, the eternal companion and friend. The novel reflected the feelings for the river, that are embodied the native dwellers of the Volga region. The Volga- as the dominant of the Russian landscape in the novel is the structural element that contributes and helps the writer to express the spiritual searches of the heroes, their hopes, moods. Yakhina's great love for Russian nature is focused on the Volga, its expanses, banks and, of course, on the people living there. The Volga embodies both the philosophy of nature and the socio-ethical ideas of the era. For all the heroes of the novel, the Volga is not only a river, but also nature itself, moreover, life itself. The whole novel is a revival of the sacred perception of the river.

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