ARCHETYPICAL IMAGE OF MOTHER IN THE "CAUCASIAN" WORKS "THE FUGITIVE" BY M. YU. LERMONTOV, "AMMALAT-BEK" BY A. A. BESTUZHEV-MARLINSKY, "MАDMОISELLE JEANNETTE" BY A. V. DRUZHININ AND "HADJI MURAT" BY L. N. TOLSTOY
“Mother” is one of the fundamental archetypical images of world culture which have many artistic and esthetic interpretations conditioned by the demands of a certain historical period, national traditions, writer’s individual worldview. The author examines the basic typological modifications of “mother” archetypical image by the material of the works of “Russian Caucasians” - M. Yu. Lermontov, A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, A. V. Druzhinin and L. N. Tolstoy. The images of “heroic”, “cross-cultural” and “pacifist” mother are identified as the key ones. Regardless of their multi-aspect nature, all “maternal images” have a common element - peacemaking efforts and will to terminate military conflict.