VERBAL-NOMINAL IDIOMATIC COLLOCATIONS INCLUDING BASIC COMPONENT <i>ZHIVOT</i>: FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT (ON THE BASIS OF RUSSIAN CHRONICLES OF THE 13<sup>TH</sup>-15<sup>TH</sup> CENTURIES)
The article deals with ancient Russian verbal-nominal idiomatic collocations including basic component zhivot in the functional and structural-semantic aspects. The study is based on texts of Russian chronicles of the 13th-15th centuries, represented in the Old Russian subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. As a result of the analysis it was established that in the texts of the chronicles there are combinations, both fixed and not fixed in the historical dictionaries of the 11th-17th centuries. Idiomatic collocations are used to describe the situation of death, which can be sacrificial, as well as the situation of deliverance from death (saving life) for various reasons. All the considered combinations have the attributes of idiomatic collocations: frequency, the idiomatic character of meaning, correlation with a particular situation. The traditional nature of verbal-nominal idiomatic collocations including basic component zhivot is indicated by the fact that they formally and semantically come close to modern phraseological units.