The article is devoted to the analysis of some lexical occasionalisms (nouns in particular) in the essay "Two Hundred Years Together” by A. Solzhenistyn. The author investigates occasionality criteria, discusses the polemic question of interrelation between occasional and potential neologisms. The article describes components of analysis of lexical occasionalisms as idiolect elements and - in a more comprehensive sense - the author's idiostyle. The author comes to the conclusion that the occasional nouns described in the work are necessary to express the writer's thought, they are deliberately and consciously created by A. Solzhenitsyn and are always "connected” to a certain context or situation, they are clear to the reader.

The article presents an analysis of the main concepts of the imaginative world view of V. Maximov and particular cognitive models which construct them, it also studies precedent texts and their role in V. Maximov's linguistic personality. The study is carried out on the basis of the texts "Ark for the Uninvited”, " Look into the Abyss” and "Quarantine”. The analysis has revealed that the writer expresses his attitude towards historical events of the 20th century appealing to the Biblical precedent texts, he correlates them with the Soviet epoch which reflects his worldview. The novelty of the study consists in the analysis of the main concepts of the imaginative world view by V. Maximov and individual cognitive models which construct them.

This article is devoted to the functioning of classifiers and nouns of genre semantics. These words are structural elements that designate subsumption relation and function as syntactic words in the positions of descriptions and predicates of taxonomic characterization. Though classifiers and nouns of genre semantics are similar in their positions it is necessary to distinguish them: classifiers are presented by nouns of characteristics, nouns of actions and also by certain object nouns that function as predicates, whereas nouns of genre semantics are represented by concrete object nouns that function more as identifying elements.

The article affirms: both poets, Tyutchev and Lermontov, being contemporaries in 1820-1830, had some of the general close acquaintances in the circle, both expressed interest to important problems of world history and outstanding persons (to Napoleon, Byron, the crisis phenomena in the European culture). Bright creative identity and deep art independence don't prevent from detection of typological relations of these poets in the field of romantic psychologism - in understanding of complexity of a sincere inner world of the person that received reflection in genre and style formations of their lyrics: ballads, confessions, prayers, dreams, love recognitions and disbelief.

The paper studies the art of a famous Russian aphoristic satirist M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, who is considered to be one of the most aphoristic writer's of 19th century. Theoretical conclusions are based on the study of the entire body of his artistic and journalistic works. Saltykov-Shchedrin's aphorisms are allegorical in its satirical nature, that's why many of them can be identified as invectives. The author presents the classifications of aphorisms and invectives of Saltykov-Shchedrin. They enriched the modern speech flow and retain the educational role for many centuries.

The article is devoted to the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Solzhenitsyn's story «One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich». The necessity of such a character in the literature of the 1960s and the influence of the story on the literary process of the 20th century are considered in the paper. The image of Ivan Afrikanovich Drynov's from novel «Business as Usual» by V. Belov is reviewed as an example. Solzhenitsyn righteous characters like Ivan Denisovich, Matrena Zakharova, Zakhar Kalita, Spiridon Egorov, Arseniy Blagodarev are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the connection of the Solzhenitsyn's novel with its concept of «saving people». The author also presents a review of «One Day ...» by former prisoner, literary historian and professor L. Fink.

The article deals with the identification and systematization of the main contradictions between the poetry of V. Benediktov and critical views of V. Belinsky according to principles of the «natural school». The study is in line with the comparative-historical and typological methods. The ideas of Belinsky about the thought in the poetry, the role of creative fantasy and the national spirit in literature is considered on the material of the critic's reviews on the main publications of Benediktov's works. This discussion was analyzed in the context of complicated literary reputation of Benediktov and his popularity from the mid 1830s till the beginning of the 1840s.

The article considers the problem of genre classification in drama, analyzes the main factors hindering the study of genre nature of the literary work and justifies the importance of genre definition. Also the article traces the evolution of the views of researches on the problem of genre in drama. Particular attention is paid to the principles of genre classification considering destruction of genre canon. The author comes to the conclusion that the traditional selection of dramatic genres in accordance with pathos does not meet the complex genre organization of dramatic works outside of classicism. In order to identify the nature of their genre a number of criteria is required.

The author of the article analyses short stories by contemporary writers: an archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), priests Vladimir Chugunov, Yaroslav Shipov, an archpriest Savva Mihalevich, which tell about a difficult path of monastic service. The peculiarities of each author's poetic style and narration are sorted out in the selected works. Also some parallels between these authors and writers of the 19th century are outlined. There author of the article mentions the original artistic results due to which the writers immerse readers in thoughts about deep philosophical problems of religion and Christian life.