The song “Lieutenant Golitsyn" was written by Vasily Moksyakov in 1965; later it existed as a folk song. The article examines a collection of texts that use song motifs of images of its characters. In Soviet prose, “Lieutenant Golitsyn” was quoted starting in the mid-1970s, almost always as a marker of the alienness of the character with whom the song is associated. Since the late 1980s, the characters of the song have been included in a cycle of obscene jokes about lieutenant Rzhevsky. Since the 1990s, the song and the images of its characters have often been used in historical adventure novels, including such varieties as alternative history and time-travel novels. There are many versions of the rehash of the song. They can be divided into three groups: non-parodic, parodic and versions that do not parody the song or its characters, but use the song as a recognizable frame. The predominant motive of parodic versions of the 1990s is to denounce the new government and the “new Russians”. The song “Lieutenant Golitsyn” has been repeatedly addressed by poets; for some, the characters in the song are the heroes of criminal chanson, for others, they are the embodiment of White Guard chivalry.
cultural symbols; parody; serial jokes; time-travel literature.