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The artice is devoted to analysis of integral image of A.S. Pushkin found in the letters of N.V. Gogol. The complete Gogol's epistolary heritage is explored to trace the evolution of the peel's image, to define its dominant features аnd features that change depending оп the letter's context. The periods when the image of Pushkin in Gogol's writings can be subjected to integral and unambiguous analysis are also singled out in the article.  

From the article it becomes clear that the pubiication of works on theorists оf French romanticism in «Moscow Telegraph», issued by N.A. Polevoj, shows the process of deep understanding of rules of new dramatic аnd which occured both in French аnd Russian literatures. Systematic, different by genre, such publications helped the Russian reader to comprehend the experience of romantics, answered their needs to come in touch with the great change in literature, аnd this change was the victory of romanticism over ciassicism. 

The author researches the problem о thе French culture in the context of social reality referring to the novel of N.G. Chernychevsky «What is to be done?». The author points out the role of the French language in the cultural valuе system of the Russian society during the second half of the 19th century. Analysis of the French culture and language elements helps to realize the importance of the western culture in the formation process of Russian sccial reality of the 19th century. 

The article considers the nature of myth and symbolism in the most experimental novel by В. Н. Lawrence, «The Plumed Serpent», of which he made а kind of a fable of religious rebirth. The traditional Lawrence’s individual myths take п the novel additionai ideological meanings that condense the models and forms of being аnd correspond to the author’s wish to convey the nature, eternity, the sense of change of epochs and generations. Such understanding of myth's functioning т close to Romanticism.