The Triumph of Autocracy: Alexei Petrovich versus Peter Alexeevich. The Conflict of Fathers and Sons in the Dutch Drama of the 19th century ; Торжество самодержавия: Алексей Петрович против Петра Алексеевича. Конфликт "отцов и детей" в голландской драматургии XIX в.

The author explores an episode of 18th century Russian history: i.e. the conflict between Peter I and his son Alexei Petrovich, reflected in the plays of Dutch playwrights in the first half of the 19th century. Referring to Peter de Groote, Zar van Rusland of Arent van Halmael, the author describes the peculiarities of the Dutch writer’s understanding of the conflict. The writer focuses on showing the reader the tsar’s inner conflict caused by the necessity to execute his son as a traitor while sensing his paternal attachment to him. It is in Johannes de Wal’s Peter de Groote, Treurspel, that... Mehr ...