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Abstract:

The article attempts to concisely analyze, starting from the most ancient forms, the history of the pilgrimage movement and thus consider the issue of the unique development of Russian pilgrimage literature from the 12th to the 21st century. This originality lay in the special organization of the artistic world of ancient Russian travel genre (at an early stage) with its exclusive route (Holy Land, Constantinople) and the transformation of real geographical space and historical time. The research material has a broad historical framework; it is characterized by the density and diversity of literary sources that convey the spiritual mood and emotional state of the pilgrims who arrived in the Holy Land. The value reorientation of Russian travel literature in the Petrine era is analyzed. The reasons for the significant change in the route map, as well as the motley composition of pilgrims, which influenced the genre diversity of travel literature, represented by poetry and prose, reports and diaries, notes, studies and essays, are considered. It has been proven that the ancient pilgrimage tradition has not been shaken; it continues to exist in a new genre form at the present time.

Keywords: Holy Land, Orthodoxy, Pilgrimage, Travel Genre, Travel Literature.