Turgenev’s story of life and the scenario (Yuliya Vrevskaya)
The text considers the interrelation between life and literature (thephenomenon expressed in O. Wilde's aphorism, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life as well as the mythologisation of real biography in literature), based on the relationship between I. Turgenev and Y. Vrevskaya: the literariness of Vrevskaya (particular to the culture of 19-th century Russian nobility (dvoryanstvo); the impact of Turgenev on Vrevskaya through both direct communication and artistry; the moulding of a life plot - the departure of Vrevskaya as a medical nurse to Bulgaria during the 1877Russian-Turkish War - after the plot example of Turgenev>s novel “On the Eve"; the mythologisation/sacral-isation or Vrevskaya in Russian and Bulgarian literature, and in V Hugo; the building of the cinematic plot of“ Yuliya Vrevskaya" (1977) after the plot of „On the Eve “ through the motif of love with a fictional Bulgarian; the forming of a behavioural modelfollowing the example of Vrevskaya's life choice (in Bulgarian queen Eleonora).