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The article deals with fairy tales by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, which worldwide known as a creator of the classical form of literary fairy tale. His fairy tales are addressed both to children and adults and as a result of it they have the complex arrangement on the levels of ideas and structure of text. One of the distinguishing features of Andersen’s poetics is the vesting of inanimate images with human qualities; this feature was a real innovation in the genre of literary fairy tale of that time. Dolls, items and sculptures become an essential part of the system of images, determine the specifics of the chronotope in Andersen’s fairy tales. In different texts, they embody different aspects of human existence: inanimate images correlate with the unnatural, artificial and symbolize the dehumanization of being (“The Swineherd”, “The Nightingale”); on the other hand, the world of inanimate items can be associated with the best qualities of the world of people: love, fidelity, art, etc. (“The Steadfast Tin Soldier”, “Psyche”). In the satirical fairy tales, which are a special part of Andersen’s masteries, the world of dolls and items appears to be a parody of human relations (“The Money Pig”, “The Puppet-show Man”). As a result of our research, we claim that dolls, items and statues, belonged to the inanimate world, take the qualities of the living, to specify clearer the boundaries of the human world in the opposition to other spaces, which is comparable with the principles of romantic duality.