Spiritual letter of conversation: genre and stylistic peculiarities

The article deals with the clerical and religious genre of spiritual letter of conversation. There are pointed out the peculiarities of authorship and addressing, clerical and religious intentions, themes and ideas. There is described the genre's construction. There is revealed the specificity of its reasoning and there is presented the repertoire of the Christian images. There is considered the issue of functioning of etiquette speech genres in the content of spiritual letter of conversation.