Speech Etiquette of A.T. Tvardovsky Comrades'' Epistolary Discourse (Based on the Materials of Margareta Thompson''s Archive at the Literary Museum of Smolensk State University)
On the basis of letters of A.T. Tvardovsky’s friends and colleagues to professor Margareta Thompson, an American researcher of his creative activity, the article considers specific features of epistolary speech etiquette characteristic of an elite speech personality. The paper analyzes speech standards which make it possible to construe a fragment of a Russian intellectual's speech portrait timed to the 1990s.