STEREOTYPICAL CONCEPTIONS ABOUT L. N. TOLSTOY AND THEIR REPRESENTATION IN MODERN RUSSIAN PHRASEOLOGY
The study shows that in modern Russian phraseology there are about a dozen of set expressions that represent stereotypical conceptions of native speakers about Leo Tolstoy as a great writer, the master of the word, extraordinary linguistic personality, who had considerable influence on his contemporaries. Among the analyzed units there are expressions of different style markedness: both literary and colloquial and even vernacular, including unprintable (obscene). Most of them are actively used in speech, although some are outdated. Some units have a specific author and can be classified as catch phrases; others don't have an established authorship. According to the author of the article the high frequency of some set expressions is evidenced by numerous examples of their use in the literary and journalistic works of various genres, as well as by the facts of variation of the units under consideration in contemporary Russian speech.