Aim is to analyze a little-known poem by V. Sumbatov that expresses an understanding of the significance of the artistic world of I. Bunin's poetry, his creative platform akin to the author of "Trizna". Methodology. Poetics is interpreted, the attention of both poets to color images and symbols, the awareness of both the subordinate position of poetics to the text's spiritual content and purpose. Biographical, hermeneutic, comparative methods are used. Results. Analysis of poetic texts and statements about the essence of literary creativity leads to the conclusion that both poets belong to the traditions of Pushkin's direction in poetry, resistance to the trend of modernist play with the word. Research implications. The article clarifies some facets of the twentieth century's literary process and specifically the poetry of Ivan Bunin and Vasily Sumbatov.

Aim. The article is dedicated to the anniversary of two great Russian writers of the second half of the twentieth century: I. Bunin and A. Tvardovsky, who never met in their lives, but highly valued each other's poetic gift. Methodology. The author points out the variety of memories about the characters of Bunin and Tvardovsky, emphasizes the uniqueness and cultural and historical value of Bunin's epistolary and workbooks ("Novomir diary") Tvardovsky. Results. The proposed analysis testifies, first, to the thoroughness and certainty of the layers of the article by Tvardovsky, and second, to the obvious similarity of the views of A. Tvardovsky and I. Bunin on key issues of literature, attitude to the writing craft. According to the author, Tvardovsky's "Novomir diary" reflects both key moments in the country's life and reveals the thoroughness of the choice of positions from which he explores Bunin's work. Research implications. The conclusion is made about the expediency of teaching the skill of a critic on the material of diary entries and the final version of the published article by Tvardovsky and the reflection of Bunin's literary views in a private letter.

Aim is to study the story of temptation, which is cross-cutting for I. Bunin's creativity, in the interaction of its archetypal origins and various ways of its artistic implementation. Methodology. The article is devoted to a detailed analysis of the story “On the road" (1913) as a basic text, which states the main motif complex of this plot, the system of characters and the symbolism of images. Results of the research allowed us to conclude about modifications of this plot in a number of works of the writer of different periods of creativity, which reflects the worldview evolution of Bunin and the features of his poetics. Research implications. The theoretical significance of this research is to develop and clarify some of the concepts of plotology: cross-cutting plot, motif complex, plot modifications. The proposed approach will be of interest to specialists in the field of literary history of the twentieth century, and the results of the research can be applied in the University practice of teaching philological disciplines.

Aim is a comparative analysis of the understanding of the Russian soul phenomenon in the works of I. Bunin and I. Shmelev. Methodology. A special attention has been paid to the image of the people and peasants’ elements by contrasting two artists’ approaches, including the dark sides of the national character, solving faith issues, daily life reflection, the class relationship of the peasant and the master. The comparative and typological methods have been applied toward the analysis of the literary works. Results. The comparative analysis of the works unpacked the nature of the Russian soul comprehension by I. Bunin and I. Shmelev. Research implications. The present article contributes to the study of the literary works of the first wave iconic emigrants.

Aim is to analyze the literary portraits of I. Bunin created by his contemporaries and to identify the genre and style specifics of the literary memoir portrait. Methodology. The object of study in this work is the literary portraits of I. Bunin, recreated in memoirs by B. Zaitsev, G. Adamovich, and F. Stepun. Special attention was focused on defining genre-compositional and stylistic features of th e literary portrait, revealing the author’s approach to recreating a creative personality image. In the analysis of memoir texts, cultural-historical, comparative, and biographical methods were used. Results. During the analysis of literary portraits of I. Bunin, their specific typological affiliation was clarified, and its relationship with the author’s choice of genre and composition structure was proved. Research implications. The article contributes both to the understanding of the creative image of the outstanding Russian classic - I. Bunin and the development of theoretical issues related to the definition of genre belonging and stylistics of the literary portrait as an artistic phenomenon.

Aim is to examine Moscow's image in the prosaic legacy of I. Bunin. Methodology. The article deals with Moscow's image in the works of I. Bunin through the prism of the cultural and historical chronotope and the philosophical and Orthodox context. The author analyzes the means of contrasting Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century, the specificity of representing the city in different periods of the writer's life and the historical existence of the city. Special attention is paid to the interpretation of Moscow's image in prose works of different periods of creation. When analyzing texts, the cultural-historical method. Results. The works' analysis reveals the significance of Moscow's image for the writer, his characters, and creativity in general. Research implications. The article contributes to the study of the legacy of Ivan Bunin.

Aim is to clarify the polemical attitude of I. Bunin to the personality and poetry of M. Voloshin in the post-revolutionary period. Methodology. Special attention is paid to interpreting the late poetic works of I. Bunin and M. Voloshin and their artistic concept of post-revolutionary Russia. Biographical, cultural-historical, and hermeneutical methods are used in the analysis of poetic texts. Results. The analysis of poems reveals the dual image of post-revolutionary Russia in the works of both poets. Research implications. The article contributes to studying the legacy of one of the brightest poets of the first third of the twentieth century.

Aim is to investigate how the syntactic structure of diary entries reflects the predictive thinking of I. Bunin concerning future works. Methodology. The article analyzes the most productive syntactic constructions in terms of their thematic functioning. The main method is the structural-semantic method, which identifies the correspondence between the syntactic structure and the expressed meanings in different text types. Results. It has been established that the diary entries of I. Bunin are an art workshop for the writer, in which observations, notes, generalizations are collected, allowing to realize the accumulated material in works of art in the future. Research implications. The research results clarify some provisions of grammar in the field of the functioning of syntactic units in the text and elaborate information about the idiostyle of I. Bunin.

Aim is to study the basic means of representing the concept of "Woman", showing the features of its reflection in the figurative fabric of the lyrical works of I. Bunin in 1887-1907. Methodology. Observations are carried out on the lyric texts of I. Bunin, in which female images arise, including through the portrayal of poetic impressions. Methods of interpretation, lexicographic analysis of the means of explication of the chosen concept, generalization are used, taking into account the contextual features of lexical units' semantics. Results. The means and features of the representation of the concept "Woman" in the lyric texts of I. Bunin, created before 1907, during the period of "romantic realism", when deviations in the creative method turned out to be associated with changes in the poet's personal life, were revealed. It is shown that I. Bunin, who represented various female types in prose genres in a wide and versatile manner, in the poetry of the period under consideration, used such images as inlays (with a few exceptions), obviously, because he was "on the way to himself," which causes pronounced muscularity of the text. It is argued that representing the concept "Woman" also acts as explicators of the concept "Beauty", which is dominant in Bunin's lyrics. Research implications. Based on the results of the study, it is possible to expand the understanding of the specifics of I. Bunin's worldview as a linguistic personality, the peculiarities of his conceptual sphere, to assess the originality of the representation of the concept of "Woman," taking into account the means of its explication, indicating the leading features of idiostyle in the lyrical fragment of the work of the period 1887-1907. The research results make a certain contribution to the method of linguistic analysis of Bunin's text.

Aim is to analyze and highlight specific features of temporal syntaxemes with the lexeme vecher in the works of I. Bunin. Methodology. The author analyzes the Collected works of I. Bunin in 4 volumes. The main content of the research is the consideration of temporal syntaxemes with the lexeme vecher, for which the method of continuous sampling was used and the structural and semantic description of the language material. Results. The analysis has shown that in the works of I. Bunin the most used syntaxemes contain an indication of the coincidence with the designated time. The article's conclusions highlight one of the writer's idiolect features and represent his specific attitude to the time of events, namely, to the evening. Research implications. The developed theoretical method of analyzing temporal syntaxemes can be used to study other writers' work.

Aim is to highlight the types of metalanguage comments in I. Bunin's prose and to determine their function in the text. Methodology. The article analyzes the works of I. Bunin, metalanguage comments of various types are identified and classified; the most common metaoperators are determined. During the analysis, the structural-semantic method and the observation method were used. Results. The most frequent reflexives in Bunin's prose were revealed: interpretation of words, their assessment, characteristics of various distinctive features of the characters' speech. The main functions of metalanguage comments in the writer's works are determined: characterological, evaluative, text-forming. It is shown that reflexives actualize additional semantic components in commented lexical units and contribute to establishing contact with the text's addressee. A specific feature of Bunin's idiostyle is the connection between metalanguage comments and intertext. Research implications. The work's theoretical significance consists of the typologization of metalanguage comments and the establishment of their connection with the writer's idiostyle. The practical significance of the article's materials is caused by the possibility of their use in teaching practice and lexicographic practice.

Aim. Describe the semantic content of the house's chronotopic image in the poetic texts of I. Bunin. Methodology. The author analyzed the corpus of texts from different years, in which the subject of research was identified by a continuous sampling method, the description of which was carried out based on a complex methodology. Results. According to the research results, it is concluded that the axiologically significant image of the house becomes a translator of the author's worldview in the poetry of I. Bunin due to the contextual environment. Research implications. It consists in the formulating of individual author's semantic increments. The article's material may be of interest in the preparation of lecture materials on the language of fiction and has access to the practice of the author's lexicography.

Aim. Description of language representation of the figurative constant "wind blows" in landscape discourse of I. Bunin and analysis of speech forms and semantic structure of the verbal image. Methodology. The author analyzes the sum of contexts containing the word image "wind blows", identifies the paradigmatic and syntagmatic properties of the subject and predicate component of the image constant, and describes the lexical, stylistic, and aesthetic functions of the paradigm members. By statistical analysis, the frequency of the verbal image is specified. Through descriptive and comparative analysis, the image's polysemantic structure is revealed, the number of lexical and semantic variants and their figurative meanings are specified, and the direction of motivation is specified. The author develops the previously proposed method of linguistic analysis of the category of imagery of a prose text based on image constants, which is associated with studying stable and reproducible language structures of the writer's artistic thinking. Results. The research results are based on the application of the main provisions of the evaluation theory in the linguistic analysis of the text. Methods of idiostyle formal variation in the Bunin language were identified. Research implications. The results of the research contribute to the Methodology of linguistic analysis of the text. The article highlights the poetic methods of functioning of verbal images, the stages of forming an integral figurative meaning in a special type of speech unit of a literary text.

Aim is to study the form, semantics, and functions of nominative sentences in the poetic texts of I. Bunin. Methodology. The author of the article conducted a structural and semantic analysis of nominative sentences extracted by a solid sample from the poetic texts of I. Bunin, using methods of observation, generalization, and interpretation. Result. The research identified features of the structure, functions, lexical and grammatical semantics of nominative sentences. It is shown how the semantic scope of Bunin's poetic utterance becomes more complex, its functional orientation increases, and the deictic and predicate functions are merged. This analysis allows you to see the individual creative style of the author. Research implications. The article's theoretical significance is determined by the contribution to the Methodology of linguistic description of the poetic text, the relevance of the proposed approach in the analysis of other idiosyncrasies. The practical significance of the article's materials is attributed to the possibility of their use in the practice of teaching philological disciplines.