Epistolary culture and the development of Russian modern literature

在项目期间，通过以下研究来阐明18世纪俄罗斯现代文学的发展与书信文化之间的关系。首先，我研究了近代俄罗斯的书信文化。书信体文化在18世纪得到了显著的发展：大量书信体的学术文章和私人信件被出版。(2)其次分析了俄国早期书信体小说及其作者。分析的主要对象是费奥多尔·叶明，他的作品《欧内斯特和多拉夫拉的书信》是俄罗斯第一部书信体小说。通过上述研究，我们明确了“书信体方法”在俄罗斯现代散文小说的发展过程中发挥了非常重要的作用。

During the term of the project the following researches were done to elucidate the relationship between the development of Russian modern literature and epistolary culture in the 18^<th> century Russia.(1) First I researched the epistolary culture in modern Russia.The epistolary culture remarkably developed in the 18^<th> century : a great many academic articles in epistolary style and private letters were published.(2) Secondly I analyzed Russian early epistolary novels and its authors.The main subject of analysis was Fyodor Emin, whose work Letters of Ernest and Doravra is the first epistolary novel in Russia.Through the researches mentioned above, we clarified that "method of epistolarity" had played a very important role in the developing process of Russian modern prose fiction.