LERMONTOV’S DISCOURSE IN PROSE OF M. AGEYEV

Abstract

The article presents a new material on the actual problem of the creative dialogue between the writers of Russian Diaspora and the Russian literary classics of the 19th century. The research focuses on Lermontov’s discourse in prose of M. Ageyev, the writer of the younger generation of the Russian writers of the first wave of emigration, is introduced into scientific circulation. The main content of the issue represents the analysis of architectonics, themes, motifs of Ageyev’s and Lermontov’s texts. It’s concluded that the Lermontov’s discourse allows M. Ageyev to form an extra-textual narrative about the dialogue of generations of the first third of the 19th and 20th centuries.