Georgy Pobedonostsev in Russian culture

In the history of Russia, perhaps there is no image that played to this day of playing a more intense and diverse symbolic role than the image of George a victorious, a spear of a piercing snake. This is one of the most productive leitmotifs of both Russian and European culture.
Book S.Ya. Senderovich, Professor of Russian literature and medieval research of the Cornelia University in the USA, "Georgy Victorious in Russian Culture: Pages of History" represents a monograph on the phenomenology of culture. Motive George Victorious is considered as a cultural complex with the following measurements: iconography (icons, frescoes, sculptures, coins, prints, etc), Life and liturgical church texts, official church-state cult, folklore cult (rituals and beliefs ), extincting poetry and fabulous mythological antecedents. The book gives the most extensive in world literature a critical review of research on the topic. The history of the cult of the occurrence and to the new time in the West and Russia is reported. A number of chapters are dedicated to monographic research of the significance of Motiva George Victorious in the specific works of Russian folklore, literature and fine arts from "Word about Igor"s regiment" before Painting Vasily Kandinsky and Prose Boris Pasternak.
The book is equipped with 57 illustrations