Language means of expressing emotions in the christmas story “Ghost in the engineer's castle” by Nikolai Leskov

The article describes the language means of expressing emotions in the Christmas story “Ghost in the Engineer's Castle” by Nikolai Leskov. The author concludes that the emotional state of the characters in the story is often showed directly (explicitly) and expressed with verbal predicates (simple, including different types of idioms, or compound) or compound nominal predicates.