Abstract:
Article acquaints with results of the research, in the full form presented by the author in the monograph "Images of Clergy in the Russian Journalism and Literature of XIX - the Head of the XX Century" prepared for publishing as soon as possible. In article the images of clergy arising in the Russian periodical press are investigated (not only in newspaper publications and journalism, but also in the fiction of that time for the first time reaching the reader in the form of journal publications). Using methods of the literary textual and substantial analysis in correlation with specific historical methods on studying social and political situation in Russia, the main tendencies and contexts of various clergy images emergence in the corresponding historical pieces of the chosen period come to light. The detailed systematized allotment of the received results is given.