„Кавказките пленници” в съвременната Руска култура: любов, културни граници и война
The Prisoners of the Caucasus in contemporary Russian culture: Literary remake and ideological use

Summary/Abstract: The plot of the “Prisoner of the Caucasus” has been developed throughout the Russian 19th-century literature in the works of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tolstoy. The plot is then continuously actualized in the literature and cinema of the 20th and the 21st century, where it obtains various interpretations. The expression “Prisoner of the Caucasus” functions also as a political metaphor, while entering everyday communication. L. Gaidai ’s film, “A she-prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik’s New Adventures”, has a significant impact on Soviet society in the 1960s, forming ideas of fashion and female beauty. To this day, “cult” lines of the film are being quoted in everyday communication and the media, which comes to testify that the plot of the “Prisoner of the Caucasus” has become a concept in Russian culture.

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