THE PICTORIAL SUBJECT IN THE NOVEL "DEMONS" BY F.M. DOSTOYEVSKY. PART 2
The myth of the Mother of God as part of the pictorial subject of F.M. Dostoyevsky's novel “Demons” is considered in the article. Assuming the features of Raphael's “Sistine Madonna”, there is another line in the pictorial subject such as the myth of the Mother of God which is a part of the Orthodox tradition. Following Vyacheslav Ivanov, the author examines the main features of this myth associated with several heroes: Marja Lebjadkina, Fedka Katorzhnyi, Lyamshin and, of course, chronicler. In the structure of the myth of the Mother of God the nominal plot is realized with respect to three heroes: Marja Lebjadkina, Marja Shatova and Matresha. Besides, the analysis of the narrative structure allows discovering the mechanism of the myth of the Mother of God created by chronicler and correlating it with the genre of provincial chronicles.