Motiv of the miraculous healing in Pushkin's "Journey to Arzrum"

This article deals with transition from Europe to Asia. Based on of the civilized principle, the narrator clearly distinguishes the concept of identity and the exotic world of the "others." The author is sober and critical in perception of road incidents, and avoids both as an admiration with the others'' exotic, as well as a praising of the imaginary homeland. However, a positive initiation, manifesting itself at a deep folk and mythological level, is the motif of miraculous healing, which becomes a subbase of A. Pushkin''s travelogue "Journey to Arzrum". And the final Renew and Life, the world gets with the transition from pagan religion to Christianity. The rain, which has overtaken the storyteller on the Mount Ararat symbolically related to the Flood, Noah''s Ark, and gives him hope for a life renewal. This perception of the miraculous is a prominent part of Pushkin''s historical concept in 1830s.