Horbolis L. The artistic paradigm of morality in the Ukrainian writer's prose of the end XIX - the beginning of XX century (the public- religious aspect).

Views of the Ukrainian masters of the end of XIX - the beginning of XX century on the religion, church, sources, essence, originality, peculiarities of public-religious morality are elucidated on the basis of available sources and little known archives. The public-religious morality is investigated through the connections of the characters of the Ukrainian prose in the end of XIX - the beginning of XX century with God, society, ethnic, sacramental (sun, ears, mountains). It was found that public-religious morality in the culture of the characters vital functions is quite sully opened in characters gedonical mood, in their intercourse with domestic animals, in their care of the nature, understanding of the music as an important part in integral whole with spiritual world of ancestors.