Humanities & Social Sciences 7 (2015 8) 1373-1381 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82-94 The Siberian Journey of Vasily Zhukovsky and Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolaevich in 1837: Two Images of the Russian East Evgeniya E. Anisimova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 26.12.2014, received in revised form 15.02.2015, accepted 22.05.2015 The article investigates regularities of psychological perception and image constructing of Siberia by V.A. Zhukovsky and tsesarevich (crown prince) Alexander Nikolaevich during their travel across Russia in 1837. <...> Alexander Nikolayevich’s perception leant in many respects on cultural models familiar to him and provided mostly by the tradition of travel-writing ranging widely from the initiation archetypes to Russian practices of province revision. <...> Zhukovsky, on the contrary, demonstrated the ability to separate the devices of literary travel from the circumstances of the real journey. <...> It is shown in the article that the travel of the heir to throne was a marking event and it was included in the process of symbolic annexing of the isolated territory which was typical for imperial culture of the fi rst half of the 19th century: the discourse of Siberia which was being created in the cultural centre was subjected in a larger degree to the idea of the integral imperial space. <...> In the heir’s notes about the travel the words of Siberians became the frame for this symbolic annexation. <...> Seeing the future the czar for the fi rst time on his land said: “hitherto Siberia was a peculiar land and now it became Russia”. <...> Introduction to the Subject Matter The aim of “Siberian Chapters” of this work is to the famous study traveling of V.A. Zhukovsky with his emperor student within the framework of the receptive prospects of the 19th © Siberian Federal University. <...> At the farewell audience Nicholas I declared to the Evgeniya E. Anisimova. <...> The Siberian Journey of Vasily Zhukovsky and Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolaevich in 1837… member entourage of the heir to the throne: “I want. <...> Grand Duke to see things, as they are, not in a poetic way. <...> Grand Duke should know Russia as it is” (Nikolai I: nastavleniia nasledniku, 1997, 56). <...> Given that one of the companions of the Crown Prince was a known, national poet and his mentor, V.A. Zhukovsky, who was a latecomer that day and failed to hear <...>