Literature as the form of artistic perception (on the example of Russian literature of the XX century)

The article is devoted to aesthetics of nature and based on the Russan writers’ works of the XX century. Ecological issues are becoming more and more popular in contemporary literature, which is the example of aesthetic reflection of writers on nature and the issue of environment’s protection. The article considers aesthetics of nature or ecological aesthetics as the advanced branch of philosophical research and there are aesthetic concepts of F. Tyutchev, M. Pryshvin, V. Astafyev, K. Paustovsky, V. Rasputin, etc. The object of analysis is also aesthetic process in the so-called “rural prose”. Russian classical literature traditionally comprehend issues of interrelations of humans and nature in its specific ways in the context of typical Russian mentality and Russian cultural traditions.