The Image of Russia and the Patriotic Theme in the Journalism of V.A. Pietsukh

Abstract

Russian journalism of the modern period reflects the process of Russian society's search for its cultural identity, a process that became especially popular in the late 1990s and has not lost its relevance today. Russian writer Vyacheslav Alekseevich Pietsukh (1946–2019) is one of the outstanding authors who have entered into a broad ideological dialogue about Russia and its spiritual, moral and ideological path in the modern world, turning to the understanding of the historical experience of Russia, the cultural boundaries of the Russian world, the Russian national character and the issue of patriotism. He devoted more than forty years of his writing and journalistic work to the comprehension of the "Russian theme". The article examines the image of Russia and the theme of patriotism in V.A. Pietsukh's journalistic essays published in 2001-2019, during the period of active development by the Russian society of the national idea and concept of its cultural identity. The analysis of V.A. Pietsukh's journalistically designed reflections allows us to conclude that he seeks to get to know Russia better and understand its cultural specifics together with his audience. Russian Russian's social, artistic and journalistic understanding of the essence of the Russian person, understanding of the fundamental values of the Russian world as the embodiment of an original cultural tradition is the content core of the publicistic works of V.A. Pietsukh.