A. SOLJENITSIN’IN “MATRİYONA’NIN EVİ” ADLI ESERİNDE RUS KÖYLÜ KADINININ SURETİ VE BATIL İNANÇLARI
IMAGE AND SUPERSTITIONS OF THE RUSSIAN PEASANT WOMAN IN THE WORK OF A. SOLZHENITSYN “MATRYONA’S HOUSE”

Summary/Abstract: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's “Matryona's House” has an important place among the works written in the village prose genre. The work is an autobiographical work based on actual events, in which the author deals with the life of Matryona Vasilyevna Zakharova, who opened her home to him while isolating himself from the outside world and teaching at a rural school after he returned from the Soviet labour camp under Stalin. The author masterfully tells the story of the Russian peasant woman, who has never smiled in her life, in the image of Matryona, who collects all the good qualities that a person should have. It reveals how their lives were turned upside down with the addition of the problematic conditions of the period to the village life, which was not easy at all. In this study, the difficulties experienced by the Russian peasant women, the fact that they do not lose their purity and cleanliness despite these difficulties, and the superstitions that affect their lives are tried to be examined with a textual analysis method.

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