TRAVELOLOGISTS I.S. SOKOLOVA-MIKITOVA (IMAGOLOGICAL ASPECT)

Against the General background of modern imagology, the prose of Russian writer I. S. Sokolov-Mikitov (1892 – 1975) is studied. Literary interpretation recreated them geographical and ethnic areas, primarily the Caucasus and Central Asia, which is associated with the perception of the writer unfamiliar nature, foreign character and everyday life, this nature due, which involves the identification of its imagological nature of the problem in the article. Reveals the originality of travelgov “blue sea,” “mountains and forests” Sokolov-Mikitov, recreating the image of the homeland in its multicultural unity that are not associated with only one locus; marked peculiarities of their style, due to the romantic perception of things seen and known. The originality of travelogue as a genre is set off by comparison (as far as the volume of the article allows) of the specified travelogues and Sokolov-Mikitov's story “Hunting in the Caucasus”, in which the main feature of Sokolov-Mikitov's creative individuality as an artist of daily life was more manifested. In travelogues, on the contrary, the outbursts of romantic perception of the traveler see make themselves felt much more often, as for example, in the travelogue “By the blue sea”, in the Chapter “Green land” in the image of Azerbaijani hunter Ali, and combined with the writer's attention to changes in the social life of the peoples of the USSR. The author of the article polemizes with E. K. Chkhaidze (Bochum, Germany), who in the publication on the literary material claims that during the collapse of the USSR allegedly “emerged double ideological standards covered by the mask of friendship of peoples.” Like it contradicts published by the Western researchers – M. Terry, and D. Moore, who talked about Soviet Russia, as an Empire of “positive activities”, its policy of decolonization. Analysis of etchings Sokolov-Mikitov “at the blue sea”, its eponymous head and the head of the “city of winds”, as well as travelog “on mountains and forests” (the head of “in the mountains of Tien Shan”), reveals the achievements of the national republics-Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan – in the 1930s, and confirms polemic positions