Hetman Y. The specific of D.V. Averkiiev's historical drama.

The object - historical plays of D.V. Аverkiiev "Letopisnoe skazanie" (1864), "Sloboda Nevolya" (1867), "Komediya o rossiyskom dvoryanine Frole Skabeeve i stolnichey, Nardin Naschokina, docheri Annushke" (1869), "Kashirskaya starina" (1872), "Temnyiy i Shemyaka" (1873), "Knyaginya Ulyana Vyazemskaya" (1875), "Razrushennaya nevesta" (1876), "Tsarevich Aleksey" (1878), and also his treatise "O drame" (1893); an aim of the thesis is to give an integral idea about dramaturgy of of D.V. Аverkiiev, dedicated to history of Russia, and to define the place of his inheritance in history of Russian dramaturgy of the second half of XIX of century; the methods - integral, motif, іntertextual and comparatively-typology analysis of artistic works; the novelty - artistically-aesthetic, socio-political looks and historical conception of D.V. Аverkiiev are examine, genre originality of his historical plays is determined, creative and stage history is traced, the specific of plot, composition, time and space is analysed, an attempt to educe the sources of his historical plays and pattern of the author's speech, monologue and dialogic speech of personages is undertaken, the system of personages is described, in a scientific turn are entered unknown and forgotten materials; the results - can be used for the study of Russian historical dramaturgy of the second half of XIX of century at higher school, in the special courses and seminars, dedicated to history of Russian literature, theatre and public opinion of XIX of century, and also for further researches of work of D.V. Аverkiiev; realm - philology.