Spiritual cartography of B.K. Zaytsev: hierotopy in the tetralogy “Gleb’s Travelling”

The article deals with the substantiation of the concept of hierotopy in the aspect of the sacralization of the secular space in the tetralogy of B.K. Zaytsev “Gleb’s travelling”. There is proved the principle necessity of the consideration of the life experience of the literary character in the context of the spiritual and mental and physical wanderings in the chantry “Holy Russia”. The points of difference of the concepts “hierotopy” and “hierophany” (M. Eliade) are revealed on the basis of the newest researches of geopoetics, there are analyzed the peculiarities of the artistic narrative in the context of the synthesis of the different narrative strategies.