The image of the lawyer of late Imperial Russia in Russian literature (based on the works of Maxim Gorky “Mother” and “The Life of Klim Samgin”)

Abstract

The article explores various interpretations of the image of a lawyer in the works of art of late Imperial Russia. As examples of artistic interpretation when creating the image of a sworn attorney at the beginning of the XX century, the author chose the works of A. M. Gorky “Mother” and “The Life of Klim Samgin”. In the course of a comparative analysis of the texts of these works of art, as well as sources of personal origin of lawyers N. K. Muravyov and V. A. Maklakov the author identifies and compares the characteristic moral and psychological features and features of the activities of fictional characters and real representatives of the Russian legal profession as possible prototypes of Gorky literary heroes. 

Keywords

• rofession as possible prototypes of gorky literary heroes. keywords: lawyer
• artistic image
• maxim gorky
• n. k. muravyev
• v. a. maklakov