Keyword: «travel time»
In the article, the object of the research is content of the 4th Chapter "On the river" from V. Korolenko's story «The Sovereign’s Coachmen" as a creative trace of the stay of a humanist-writer in the territory of Khangalassky District in Yakutia. The article presents an analysis of the characteristics of character’s travel time. The features of organization of travel reflected in the details of the work. The text of the story was compared with travel notes in the writer's notebooks. We made the conclusion about the travel time between coachmen’s stations, explored the ratio of fiction and reality in the text, identified and reviewed the facts from the text, details that allow to form a judgment about the physical capabilities of a person in the harsh conditions of interaction with the elemental force of nature.