COMEDY "THE DIVIDE" (1853) IN AN EARLY DRAMATIC SYSTEM BY A. F. PISEMSKY AND IN THE CONTEXT OF THE JOURNAL "SOVREMENNIK"
The article contains a holistic internal, comparative and historical and comparative analysis of one of the least studied comedies by A. F. Pisemsky “The Divide” and touches upon the issues of conceptual nature in the sphere of the individual poetics of early work of the playwright and the history of Russian journalism in mid 1850s: laws of imagery, range of problems, the subject to satirical disclosures in early drama works by Pisemsky; and place of the play “The Divide” in the journal “Sovremennik”, chronicle and character of cooperation by the author in the magazine, the reasons of ideological and artistic differences between him and the editors.