"RUSSIAN FRENCHWOMAN" IN BULAT OKUDZHAVA'S NOVEL DATE WITH BONAPARTE: DISPUTE WITH THE CLASSIC WRITER

The analysis of the creative reception of War and Peace in the novel about the Napoleonic Wars focuses on the image of "Russian Frenchwoman" - a character associated with m-lle Bourienne but represented in a fundamentally different way. The chosen perspective makes it possible to trace the idea of Bulat Okudzhava's dispute with Tolstoy's "enemy text"; at the same time, the priority of the author of Date with Bonaparte was the idea of an alliance between the "children of mankind" (belonging to Tolstoy). Okudzhava's dialogue with his great predecessor is characterized in light of the experience of the calamities of the 20th century, projected by the writer on the historical past.