The deacon Fyodor and the folk culture
The paper considers the stylistic specificity of the deacon Fyodor's social and political essays. Special emphasis is placed on one of the aspects of the subject matter, namely on the analysis of similes and symbolic metaphors since these tropes allow to trace the path of liberation from the theological system of symbols in the democratic literature of the XVII century due to the renewal of traditional images, filling them with a new content by using colloquial vocabulary. For the first time ever the author examines how the deacon Fyodor and the archpriest Avvakum used the same symbolic metaphors in their own writings, what were the specific features of their approaches.