Abstract:
The article deals with the late stage of the Narodnik?s (populist) fiction of early 1890-s in the aspect of deep cognition of Russia, which was important on the turn of the century. The subject matter is the travel essays of the writer-ethnographer F.D. Nefedov, who is forgotten nowadays. The article describes some features of the poetics of the Narodnik?s travelogue (the narrator, the compositional principle of contrast a conflict within a single scene, etc.), the originality of the demonstration of the author?s position and synthetical genre structure. According to the type of the plot construction Nefedov?s travelogue is close to a story. His plot is not only localy attached to a certain scene or a situation, but also contains the idea which is expressed in the attempts of the privileged class characters to get closer to the ordinary people, but their realization remains outside the plot. The poetics of Nefedov?s travel essays reflects both the ideological position of the author and
