Russian Language StudiesRussian Language Studies2618-81632618-8171Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba14436Research ArticleLANGUAGE STYLIZATION IN LESKOV’S NOTES OF THE UNKNOWN(Zametki Neizvestnogo)NikitinO V-Moscow State Regional University151220163344408122016Copyright © 2016,2016The article gives a linguistic and stylistic analysis of N.S. Leskov’s fiction. The author compares some hitherto unpublished manuscripts related to the church life of the 18-19th centuries with the cases and situations described in Zametki neizvestnogo . One of the main ambitions of the author is to reveal the possible correlation between the attributes of N.S. Leskov’s heroes and the Russian cultural traditions of the past. Some original and vivid examples of the speech of specific Russian professions and estates are analyzed as well as linguistic parallels between complicated church language and the writer’s system of stylistic devices are defined. New interlinks between the historic, the linguistic and the literary aspects of the text and, especially, N.S. Leskov’s unusual world as a form of culturally- historically determined consciousness are detected.language stylizationarchaic textlinguistic parallelsbook languageSlavonicismstext semanticsliterary speechmetaphorical senseuncommon vision of worldязыковая стилизацияархаичный текстязыковые параллеликнижный языкстарославянизмысемантика тексталитературная речьметафорический смыслособое видение мира