Keyword: «principles of historicism»

The scientific article summarizes the results of the study of intertextual techniques used to recreate historical realities in L. E. Ulitskaya. The novel "Jacob's ladder" uses a single – through – principle of artistic historicism – symbolic and intertextual. Introducing biblical and literary allusions, reminiscences, images, plots, associations, dramatizations, and giving them new interpretations, the author not only establishes the relationship between the past and present of Russian history and compares various historical epochs, but also gives his vision of their meaning, outlines the possible development of society in the future.