Reception Oriental motifs in the works of A.N. Radishchev and I.A. Krylov

Abstract

The comparative analysis of two images of Eastern rulers and their court elite — in the story «Kaib» of Krylov and in the chapter «Spasskaya Polest» of Radishchev’s book «Journey from Petersburg to Moscow» presented in the article. The stories are analysed in the aspect of allegorical using of the genre «oriental story» as a literary-political utopia.