ABSTRACT This paper analyzes how Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark treats the complex relationship of Russia and Europe, considering their history not as a fact but as a poetic construction. The film demonstrates how nostalgia for an imaginary past often produces various forms of historical erasure and national myths of origin.

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