mercy

The evolution of the concept MERCY is researched in the Russian linguistic consciousness; the concept is analyzed in many aspects; the concept’s functioning in the writer’s idiostyle is examined on the material of A. S. Pushkin’s literary heritage.

One of the defining features of Pushkin’s work was the issue of the ‘law and mercy’. The law and mercy conflict is also represented in the prose of A. I. Solzhenitsyn. In his works, Solzhenitsyn gives a distinctive interpretation of this tradition, which defines the main trend of the Russian literature not only of the 19th, but the 20th and 21st centuries as well.