ДЕТСКИЕ ОБРАЗЫ В РУССКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ ХІХ ВЕКА (ИНВАРИАНТЫ И ВАРИАНТЫ)

The development of childhood subject matter in the second half of the XIX century Russian literature has been considered in the following work. Some child images invariants on the examples of individual variants represented in the novels by Lev Tolstoy, Feodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin have been described. Fiction variants of child-miracle, child-victim, child-adult, childmonster invariants have been revealed. It has been claimed, that three invariants of child images have been deeply developed in the Russian literature although the invariant child-monster is poorly represented with one image only. It has been hypothesized, that the mentioned invariants gradually formed in the XIX century literature and developed in the XX century.