Trizna V. Siberian Prose by I.T.Kalashnikov

Problems and poetics of the novels "Merchant Zholobov's Daughter" (1832), "Kamchadalka" (1832), "Submachine Gun" (1841), stories "Exiles" (1834), "Peasant Woman's life" (1835) by I.Kalashnikov have been analyzed. To clear up the writer's role in the history of Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century and his contribution to the formation of Siberian theme in Russian fiction. The methods of our research are biographical, descriptive, comparatively - historical, socially - genetic and system. For the first time the creative work of Kalashnikov appears as an integral phenomenon which synthesized achievements of world Russian and regional Siberian culture. The complex of themes is revealed in Kalashnikov's prose which became typological for a Siberian novel and genre originality of ethnographical historical novel founded in Russian literature by Kalashnikov. The further research of interrelation of regional and national literatures is possible.