The article examines the sentimental travels ("A Journey Through Crimea and Bessarabia in 1799" (1800) and "The Crimean Judge's Leisure Hours, or The Second Journey to Taurida" (1803-1805)) of P.I. Sumarokov (circa 1767-1846), describing the Crimean Peninsula in late 18th - early 19th century, i.e. in the first decades after it became part of Russia. The author made his first trip to the midday region in 1799 as a free traveler, and Sumarokov visited Taurida for the second time in 1802 as a statesman and judge. The study raises an important question about the fusion of religious and secular literature traditions in the analyzed texts, as well as religious motives and features of the walking genre, which originated back in the Old Russian literature. During the analysis, it was noted that P.I. Sumarokov's travelogues combine the following features with Ancient Russian walks: the important role of Orthodox culture in the author's worldview, which helps to "master" someone else's cultural space, the sacredness and symbolism of the path, the inclusion of the described events in the context of world history and a special causality. The study also showed that the civic pathos and edification inherent in Sumarokov's Crimean travelogues and edification have a religious character.
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