Keyword: «french literature»

The author analyses the image of Russia in the artistic consciousness of France on the materials of the XIX century literature. The problem of French-Russian cultural dialogue is analyzed in theoretical plane, with a special emphasis on the notion of national concept sphere elaborated by Z. I. Kirnoze and her followers. Then a mythological dimension of the image of Russia, represented in French literature, is reviewed on the basis of V. V. Orekhov’s works. The subject of the study also includes cultural models of representation of the image of Russia in XIX century France.