Keyword: «yule story»

The article attempts to describe the New Year notion in the Russian conceptual picture of the world. The text of V.F. Odoevsky’s short story «New Year» was involved as a language material. The semantic layers distinctive of this concept and their representatives are revealed within the analysis. The conclusions were drawn about the peculiarities of the lexical and semantic content of the nuclear and peripheral zones of the concept. The linguistic and cultural features of the concept representation which are typical for the linguistic picture of the world of the XIX century are exposed.