Keyword: «allusive onym»

The article examines the functions of the allusive onym "Mumka" in the story by M.A. Osorgin. The linguistic means of creating a literary parody of an animal character are also characterized in this article. The idiostyle features of the writer's literature manner in the study of the story are noted. We have established an importance of the intertextual connection between the story "Mumka" and the prose of I.S. Turgenev. In particular, between the stories "Mumka" and "Mumu".