THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION OF NIKOLENKA IRTENYEV IN LEO TOLSTOY’S TRILOGY

The relevance and novelty of the work lies in the fact that when analysing Tolstoy's trilogy, researchers in most cases consider the mental processes in Nikolenka's childhood, but his spiritual evolution from childhood to youth has not been sufficiently studied in modern literary criticism. The purpose of the article is to analyse Irtenyev's mental life, as well as his age-individual qualities in specific circumstances of life in the novels “Childhood,” “Boyhood” and “Youth.”