MEETING AT THE "GREAT ROAD": V.A. SOLLOGUB’S NOVEL "OVER THE EDGE"
The article is devoted forgotten novel by V. A. Sollogub «Over the Edge» (publ. in 1885). Set the important role of chronotope "great road" (M. M. Bakhtin) in the plot of the novel, which links different toposes and different social worlds, combining a variety of human destinies, that allows to create the complete, with all their internal contradiction, capacious image of the world.