This article is dedicated to the creative heritage of the famous Russian poet Yunna Moritz. World outlook of Moritz, her moral and aesthetic principles are embodied not only in poetry, but also in her essays and stories. They reflected the progressive thinking of the author as well as a true reflection of reality. The search for truth and harmony with the world is recreated by Moritz in poems dedicated to Armenia. They serve as a continuation of the literary traditions, which once were created by V. Bryusov, I. Selvinskiy, O. Mandelstam, and other Russian poets and translators, who made a great contribution to the development of Russian-Armenian literary relationships.

The article raises the problem of the presence and artistic transformation of elements of karamzinizm in the works of Lermontov. Perceived by a poet as a vanishing aesthetic tradition karamzinizm manifested at the level of creation of special lyrical situations and motive-image rows. Along with the karamzinizm’s poetic potential Lermontov learns and rocaille sense of the brevity of life, which entails a kind of tragic Epicureanism. Creatively converted reflection of transience of earthly happiness is replaced by intense search for deep spiritual basis which is able to give back the man the lost fullness of being.

The article explores existential motives in prose by Yuri Karabchievsky in the 70s-80s. Such «eternal» problems like life and death, sense and its loss, freedom and responsibility, communication and loneliness - were fundamental in the artist’s reflection and kept him engaged till his tragic demise... Pratogonist’s search for his niche in life was difficult enough: he always felt like an outcast, the origins of this state of mind rooted from childhood and painted quite a bleak life picture of the significant part of the society.

The article contains the analysis of transformation of the views of the writer N. Karamzin, reflected in his journalistic articles in the magazine «Vestnik Evropy» in 1802-1804 years through the prism of the dispute of liberal and conservative social and political ideas in the light of the political and cultural change of this difficult era at the turn of the century, which, in general, figuratively was named «the spirit of the new age». It also explores the set of translated articles of «Vestnik Evropy» of a specified period, most of which are not reprinted.

The article describes the principal features of the later prose of Ludmila Petrushevskaya, the main of which is the change in the degree of character’s and the author’s evaluation, that had come to the place of the alleged dispassion of early prose with its undeveloped position of the narrator. On the example of a text from the book «Black Butterfly» (2008) it is shown how through the signal words, intonation and stylistic modulation not instructive writer in principle, unobtrusively, but firmly places emphasis that is perfectly adjusted morally.

The article presents the spiritual image of the elder Amvrosiy of Optina, attention is paid to his ascetic life. A brief comparative description of the path to God of the elder Amvrosiy and of the writer K. Leontiev, his spiritual son, is introduced in it. The blessed repose of the elder Amvrosiy and wonders that accompanied it are described in detail. The author of the article draws the readers’ attention to the artistic features of the biographical novel: the presence of quotations from Scripture, ring composition, inserted elements in the form of a poem by unknown author and excerpts from prose of Evgeniy Poselyanin dedicated to Optina and the elder Amvrosiy of Optina.

The article deals with various aspects of N. Karamzin’s comprehension and artistic expression of images, themes and motives associated with the events of Spanish history and culture, including Karamzin’s interpretation of the image of Don Quixote. The article illustrates the Russian historiographer’s attitude towards Spanish revolution of the early 1820s in the context of his historical research and his moral and philosophical reflection on the issues of good and evil, on power and tyranny, on monarchy and republic. The article uses Karamzin’s poems, prose, letters, and also unpublished sources.

Polixena Sergeyevna Solovieva is the poetess of symbolist school. Her first poetic collection «Poems» was published in 1899, the second book of verses under the name «Hoarfrost» appeared in 1905. «Snow hoarfrost» is one of traditional symbols of literature of the Silver age. Referring to the theme of nature, the poetess uses a number of significant symbols. Among them there is such a symbol of hope as the blossoming cherry - «rime of spring renewal». All artistic means which are found in the collection: ring composition, antithesis, alliterations, serve to express the poetic credo of P. Solovieva. The article also deals with the play “Blind” which is included in the collection «Hoarfrost”. It is a romantic story with adventures of a «witch», with mentioning of magic forces of nature. The figurative system is correlated with Ancient Greek mythology, the Christian beginning is bound with mysticism. Christian ideals of P. Solovieva are «love and eternal life». They are revealed in the image of Oread representing force and energy of the world, the aspiration from pagan roots to future Sacred Russia.

The article presents the problem of linguistic personality’s self-identification in social networks. The authors reveal the peculiarities of the process of virtual communication and the methods of self-presentation of virtual linguistic personality. The paper highlights the key differences between «online» and «real» identity. Also, there is the analysis of major trends in the issue of self-identification of person in social network. The main purpose of one of the trends is the mismatch of the «network» and real identities. The opposite view is that linguistic personality seeks the authenticity in objective reality and in the communicative space of social networks.

The article considers the multifunctionality of the rhetorical statements used in the religious texts, sermons, the Word of the Shepherd. The attention is drawn to a high degree of expressiveness of the rhetorical statements, its impact on the recipient and its ability to evoke a response. We analyze the use of the rhetorical statement as an argument unit of the religious text: arguments of the absurdity; arguments of the impossibility; logical arguments. We also note the role of the rhetorical statement in the implementation of the religious and educational, instructive and didactic, edifying, emotional functions of some canonical texts, as well as some modern religious discourse genres.

The article presents an analysis of thematic and ideographic structure of the symphony as a genre of religious literature. The word symphony has distinctive features of its meaning in the religious sphere. The symphony on the writings of saint fathers represents the spiritual life, it is an element of the orthodox religious discourse and it generates the knowledge about it. The symphony is also related to the sphere of the hagiographic concepts. The research of symphony and other religious genres will make it possible to simulate the thematic and conceptual structure of orthodox religious discourse.

The article is devoted to the analysis of texts, advertising the services of dentistry. A description is given to the most regularly used vocabulary of different lexical-semantic groups of the lexical-semantic field “Dentistry”, which reflects the fragment of the language picture of the world “Medicine”. It is shown that due to the use of well-chosen words of dentistry services (treatment, prosthesis, the promotion of oral care products, etc.), which, as we know, many people for subjective reasons don’t like to use, they are presented in an attractive light, nicely, as required by the pragmatics of the advertising text and its stylistic features.

The analytical category of the intensive in the syntactic structure of the Russian language is a means of representing the expression, gradation, evaluation. It belongs to the emotional sphere. In the form of the intensive these means are created by the particles как, так, какой, такой - grammatisized pronouns. In Pushkin’s poetic language the forms of the intensive are organically included in a clear syntactic structure of the verse. The grammatical potential of the particles is consistent with the semantics and stylistics of the main component. Bright expressive pictures are created in the poetic text: on the one hand, pictures of approval, admiration, enthusiasm, love, and on the other hand, of censure, blame, resentment, contempt, hate. The article highlights the high degree of evaluation in the intensives that contain words with the evaluative semantics (хорошо, чудно; мила, etc.); repetitions and interjections (Ах! О! Боже!), etc. In Pushkin’s poetic language the forms of the intensive occupy its rightful place as the grammatical and stylistic means of expression, emotion, evaluation, graduation.

Absract. The article is devoted to the question of regional variation of language on the territory of the Russian Federation. The article also describes a number of terms, which are used to «regionally colour» the speech. Also the article raised the problem of developing a common terminological apparatus. Question about the status of locally coloured types of literary speech has become the subject of linguistic debate, but still did not get a clear solution. The article is said not only about the active development of this phenomenon, but also that this area of research, linguistic regional studies, is still in the stage of its formation.

The subject of the article -subjective modality of press, different modal meanings of newspaper text. The different operators of modality in press are shown. There are rhetorical units, which express different modal meanings, negative emotions of journalist. The connection of subjective modality and type of communication is explained. The functions of rhetorical units are developing the dialogue, activation of attention of the recipient.

The article introduces the concept of communicative-pragmatic field of person -combination of single-propositive components which relation to person in this statement is specifically indicated. The meaning of person marks names and nominal groups, that are able to run further as representatives of scope of that person. Marking names by relation to the scope of person is actualized in the opposition of personal meanings and often becomes the basis of pragmatic assessment of these names that affects their compatibility with other words in the text.

This article presents the analysis of the concept of GOD according to the essay G. Kotoshikhin «On Russia in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich». The studied phenomenon embodied in its semantics the main values, which are based on key spiritual categories of the system of world perception, on spiritual culture of the nation governing Christian area of society of the 17th century. Moreover, God in the language picture of the world in the era of the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich is interpreted as the ideal entity, Supreme power, that gives support, the center of spiritual life of the Orthodox state.