Dynamics of the Image of the Steppe in E. P. Rostopchina’s Creative Work

The dynamics of the steppe chronotope in work E. P. Rostopchina has not been subject analysis previously. Meanwhile, study this space-time continuum makes it possible to clarify idea creative evolution writer which is a controversial issue literary studies. Based on ideas about and, more particularly, set forth works Russian critics (M. M. Bakhtin, Yu. Lotman, V. N. Toporov), authors article prove that image Rostopchina’s dynamic. During Anna period her work, “lifeless”, “sad”, “silent”, an alien and boundless desert, person full physical spiritual strength uncomfortable lonely. St Petersburg period, appears as habitable space become saving “cell” for sensitive exalted souls tired meaningless whirlwind secular life. Finally, late Moscow symbolic national emerges, associated with eternal world: Russia’s heroic past, its difficult present, future stretching infinitely. Relying traditional interpretations existing literature (A. S. Pushkin, Gogol, A. Vyazemsky, etc.), brings own semantic nuances image. consideration conclude what contribution made formation “steppe text” specifically one literature.