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Mikhail Prishvin’s story “The Worldly Chalice” includes a wide variety of semantic fields, which allows researchers to analyze this work through the prism of various cultural codes — religious, philosophical, mythopoetic, and others. The work attempts to consider the story in the context of certain cultural imperatives, such as “a person must be fed,” “a person must be dressed,” and “a person must not sleep in the open.” These imperatives are the archetypes of food, clothing, and housing, bearing a mandatory ethical burden. In the artistic and essay component of “The Worldly Cup,” which explicates the world of everyday life and the new way of life of post-revolutionary life, the writer actualizes the non-realization of cultural imperatives, which contributes to the transformation of a person into a “monkey slave” and deprives him of the image and likeness of God.