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JOHN FENNELL (Oxford, England) IVAN I V AS A WRITER Ivan Groznyi as a writer has attracted a fair amount of attention among literary critics. There have been a ttmnber uf purcly leciiiiical studies on liis morphology and lexis: synonynucs (adjectives and nouns). pulonisn?s, lmpa.v legomenu, tlialc?tisms, akaiiie-, and a very few - on his syntax.l At the same timc therc have been some. not very detaited, attempts at analyzing his style,2 But nonc of these works seem to give murr ihan a very broad uver- look, often little more than a string of somewhat superficial generalizations concerning the innovatory elements of his language. But, assuming that the bulk of the writings normally attributed to Ivan were in fact either actually written or at least dictated by him, can we talk of 1. S. A. Savitskaia, "Osobennosti iazyka poslanii lvana Groznogo," 7.birnik filologi- chnogo fakiil'teta (Odes'skii dcrzhavnii universitet illl. I. 1. Mechnikova), 3 (1953), 43. 50 ; M. I. Pomigalova, "Leksika poslanii Ivana Groznogo" (Avtorcfcrat dissertatsii, Lenin- gradskii gos. pcd. inst., Leningrad, 1954); V. N. Rogova. "Razgovornaia ]cksika v I pos- lanii Ivana Groznogo Andreiu Kurbskomu," Ucheitye zapiski Krastioiarskogo Aus. pcd. instih?ta, 25, No. 3 (1963); idem, "Osobennosti upotrcblcniia
Russian History – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1987
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