Motive disguise features in Russian historical novels of the ХХth century (to the problem)

This article analyzes the major functions performed by dressing up in a Russian historical novel of the twentieth century. Referring to the D. Merezhkovsky, A. Tolstoy, V. Shishkov and V. Pikul works, the author explores a number of episodes where a disguise motive plays an important cultural, political and psychological role. The analysis system has traditionally allocated functions (and plot-characterological) deepened through identified in the socio-cultural, political (strategic) and psychological.