LOVE THEME AS A REPRESENTATION OF AUTHOR'S CONCEPTION IN D.S. MEREZHKOVSKY'S NOVEL "ALEXANDER THE FIRST"
Love theme plays an important part in D.S. Merezhkovsky's novel "Alexander the fi rst". It is presented in the relationship between three heroes: Emperor Alexander the fi rst, Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna and Mary Naryshkina. Through the love theme characters and their inner life; author's ideas of "earthy", carnal, and "heavenly", spiritual, elements in a human being are developed in the novel.