ARTISTIC PERSONALITY OF THE LITERARY SCIENTIST EVGENIIA NAKHIMOVNA STROGANOVA: FIRST RESULTS

The article is dedicated to the anniversary of the famous Russian literary critic Evgeniia Nakhimovna Stroganova. It discusses individual characteristics of this researcher’s individual style. In her works dedicated to Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian female writers, works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev, Stroganova forms and implements her personal research methodology, i. e. magnetism of archival or rare resources, pedantry and scrupulousness in terms of their understanding, research result “texture”. There is an element of “lecturing” in the way she presents the material, structure, which is characteristic of scientific speech. The article analyses various publications, special attention is given to the encyclopedic dictionary “Saltykov-Shchedrin and his Contemporaries” and the monograph called “Modern Idyll”.