ON THE SACRED MEANING OF ?THE STATION MASTER? BY ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

In the article the author demonstrates the diference between the external “study” and the internal “comprehension” of the artistic text on the example of Pushkin’s masterpiece ? The Station Master. Studying and comprehension are not synonymical. The German didactic pictures on the walls of the station master’s home are by no means an adequate analogue of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, but rather its moralistic simplification. In his artistic intuition Pushkin follows the evangelical logic of miracle and not the legalistic logic of the German pictures. In the end, the heroine finally performs a return, albeit it is her father's grave that she returns to. She herself 'dies' in her sole function of being just a daughter to the station master, but at the same time is 'resurrected' as a person who loves and is loved. In the prosaic world there is a place for love, which can be compared to wonder ? such is the deep meaning of the Pushikn’s text.