The artistic originality of the modern orthodox story ("A tempting offer for Margarita" by Y. Shamanskaya)

The article represents a scientific understanding of the Orthodox story as a special genre form in the context of a powerful layer of Russian Orthodox prose. The key features of the genre of the story are identified, the specifics of Yu. Shamanskaya’s story is examined in the article. The study identified that in accordance with the tradition of the Russian classical story, the modern Orthodox story combines elements of social, lyrical and psychological. The "microenvironment" for the hero is his immediate environment, the action takes place in modernity, directly connected with the "past", explains it, and various aspects of reality given not in statics, but in development. At the same time, unlike the classical story, in the modern Orthodox story, firstly, the action takes place in our days, the present becomes the object of the image, but the hero is no longer equal to himself and his “plot”: he is depicted in crisis situations and the final rebirth; secondly, there is a layering (allusions to the novel by M. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", "Crime and Punishment" by F. Dostoevsky, in connection with which the plot development is determined by the motives of duality, mirror imagery, madness); thirdly, moral issues play a key role, pathos is determined by the most important idea - serving God as the highest Truth.