COMPOSITIONAL AND INFORMATIVE ORGANIZATION OF TEXTS OF LITERARY AND CRITICAL PORTRAITS OF O. MANDELSTAM IN THE 1920s.

The article deals with the features of the composite and substantial organization of the texts of the critical portraits “A. Blok”, “Auguste Barbier” and “For the Anniversary of F. K. Sologub” by O. Mandelstam, which were created in the first half of the 1920s. The genre identification of studied articles allows to trace some stages of formation of author's genre model of a literary and critical portrait in O. Mandelstam's creativity. In this study the hypothesis is asserted, that the articles of the critic, which have become the object of analysis, can be attributed as literary-critical portrait feature articles, it is noted that the composition of these works is based on causal relationships, based on the development of a well-thought-out and logically balanced concept. The article proves that from O. Mandelstam’s point of view A. Blok is a cultural creator; A. Barbier is a poet of  revolution; F. Sologub is a poet, which is “saturated with time”.