"Mezz'ora ancora ed ecco la Puglia benedetta!". Viaggi di russi a Bari e dintorni tra la fine dell'Ottocento e l'inizio del Novecento

Russians' journeys in and around Bari in the late 19th and early 20th century. In this article, the author delves into the subject of texts written by Russian travellers in Apulia in the 19th and 20th centuries. These are most often travel reports, especially pilgrimages, but this category also includes narrative texts in which a very precise image of the Apulian land emerges, not far from the image that Russians more generally have of Italy. In the first part of the article, the author illustrates the state of the art regarding the theme of Russian travels through Apulia, while in the second part he indicates the main characteristics of these texts in order to verify the existence of a literary category that we could define "Apulian text of Russian literature" (based on Vladimir Toporov's famous definition of "Petersburg text").