The description of morality and manners in Vsevolod Solovyov’s short prose

This article contains a genre specificity of short prose by Vsevolod Solovyov, whose work is devoted to the Russian history of the XVII-XIX-th centuries. According to professor N.L. Vershinina, the author distinguishes the difference between the description of morality and manners. The main difference is in the presence of author’s point of view on the describing occurrences. In this case, such works are considered to be a kind of morality, which characterizes Solovyov’s works. Showing every-day life, he examined the process of turning barbarism into a civilizing society.