ROLL CALL OF EPOCHS IN THE FATE OF RUSSIA: INTERTEXT OF PUSHKIN’S POEM "THE BRONZE HORSEMAN IN THE NOVEL BY B. A. PILNYAK "THE VOLGA FLOWS INTO THE CASPIAN SEA"
The purpose of the article is to see the influence of Pushkin’s poem «The Bronze Horseman» on Boris Pilnyak’s novel «The Volga Flows into the Caspian Sea». Structural-typological and historicalliterary methods of research allow to define historiosophical and constructive mechanisms of this phenomenon, its scale, ambivalent nature of the novel and its place in the Russian literature of the end of 20-ies of 20<sup>th</sup> century. Pushkin’s intertext in the Pilnyak’s narrative is of system character and widely affects its event layer, figurative series, conceptual level. The novel acts as a literary author’s myth, which grew on the trunk of the Petersburg myth of Pushkin’s bronze horseman, grandiose creation and catastrophe. The work organically takes Pushkin intertext into its artistic structure as an artistic opportunity to express the essence of its time.