The image of the city in Karion Istomin’s illustrated Primer of 1694
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2021-3-119-135
Abstract
The city is an important center of social life. In different historical periods of time, the role of cities was changing, as well as the city image in the picture of the world and in the society system of values. The study of the city image is one of the urgent tasks of urban studies, as well as the entire humanitarian knowledge with the involvement of various historical sources. The article sets out a task of studying the city image using the example of textbooks for teaching literacy (Primers) as books that form the initial picture of the human world. To that end Karion Istomin’s illustrated Primer was chosen. It was first created in handwritten form to teach the children of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. In 1694 it was published at the Moscow Printing Yard. Boards for that all-engraved edition were made by the engraver Leonty Bunin. A Рrimer is a combination of verbal and visual information. For the first time in it an important feature became the illustrative series was important, which was supposed to help the student in mastering letters of the alphabet. Each page of the Primer consisted of pictures with captions and a poem. They interpreted words that began with or included the letter being studied. Among the illustrations by Leonty Bunin, images of the city and city buildings occupy a significant place.
As a result of the study of verbal and visual information about the city and the urban environment, the following images of the city are distinguished in the article: the city as a sacred space; the image of a city as a geographical marker (depicting parts of the world through the creation of different types of cities);image of city’s architecture (buildings for the residence of townspeople, churches, outbuildings, protective and the fortification structures); the city image as a symbol of the native land. It was important for the formation of a picture of the world among youths starting to learn to read and write. Through the visual-verbal series of the image of the city, children formed a certain perception of the urban environment, urban space – different and multifunctional.
Supporting agencies: This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project “The image of the City in the Educational Literature of the 16th – 18th centuries: From Medieval Traditions to the practices of the Modern Times”, no. 20-013-00535.
About the Author
Yu. E. Shustova
Russian State University for the Humanities;
Russian State Library
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yuliya E. Shustova, Cand. of Sci. (History), associate professor
bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047;
bld. 3/5, Vozdvizhenka St., Moscow, 119019
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