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In the present article it is attempted to substantiate analytically the elements of literary prototypical features of the title characters of M. Yu. Lermontov’s novel «Princess Ligovskaya» and the novel «A Hero of Our Time» as related to the main character of the novel by V. Ropshin «The Pale Horse». George’s individualism, the representative of the 1900s and the head of the terrorist group, goes back to the romantic individualism of Lermontov’s namesake hero and his follower – a «hero of the time».

The article considers questions related to the way cognitive mechanism of internalization functions when an individual is developing an identity, as well as means of this mechanism being verbalized in A. Schnitzler’s personal diaries.

The article deals with problems of terminological unity, forms and boundaries of «memoir» genre in modern literary criticism on the example of F. M. Dostoevsky’s works. A lot of his letters, «Writer’s Diary», and also many fragments of his novels are closely related to memoir genre. Thus the laws of memoir narration are revealed in these parts of Dostoevsky’s literary heritage different in genre nature, but entering the original interaction with their own genre’s principles. 

The article attempts to consider how the Russian philosophical lyrics, copiously quoted in the pages of the newly-found diary of S.L. Frank, reflects the "history of the soul" of the young philosopher, reveals the innermost depths of the "spiritual life" of his author.