About the author
Alexey I. Kondratenko (Orel, Russia), DSc in Philology, Professor, I.S. Turgenev Orel State University.
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Abstract
The article considers the chronotope of autobiographical prose of I. Bun- in on the example of the Yelets estate and the city of Orel of the late XIX century. A compa rison of the content of the novel “The Life of Arseniev” with historical realities and letters of that time allows us to see how the writer artistically rethought the past, changing the idea of everyday life in the estate and in the provincial center in order to convey his ideas to the reader.