Guseva E. Essay in correlation to the genres of the Russian narrative prose from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.

The subject of the investigation is the features of the development of the essey genre in the Russian literature of the mentioned period, formation of new comprehension of the relations of a man to society, to the main conceptions of being; the character of correlation of ideological pablicistic and artistic-figurative elevents. The esseys created during the 80-s - 90-s of the 19th century and during the first decade of the 20th century. At the boundary of the centuries an essay wos strongly influanced by a short story and a tale and it appeared in a more finished literary form. The languige of the descriptions became more complecated, absorbing past literary experiens, settled images, motifs, acquired semiotic richness. In the essays more important place was given to the artistic research of the inner world of a man, great attention was paid to personality, though psychologism was not self-valuable. Confessional autobiografical documentary character and essay exactness served for deeper cognition of aman.