The Russian pilgrim literature between East and West
The article analyses the first Russian piece of travel writing - «The Pilgrimage» of the Russian Abbot Daniel (beginning of the XII century) - in the context of the development of pilgrimage movement in the Western Europe, as well as in Byzantium and in Russia. Special attention is paid to the study of the changes in the idea of space and time in various cultural traditions and the relation of such changes to the genre transformations of travel literature (organization of the literary world, etc.). Such a complex approach allows comprehending a wide panoramic view of its development all the way to the XX century.