Communicants in the speech organization of private letters

The article is devoted to the epistolary communications. By the examples of Russian classicsʼ letters (А. Pushkin, L. Tolstoy, I. Turgenev, A. Chekhov), the epistolary I in speech organization of private letters is considered. The peculiarity of the epistolary communications is that the subject of speech and the author are the same; the convertibility of the author and the reader is found in the reversibility of process, when I becomes YOU in the speech of someone who, in turn, designates himself as I, i.e. the dialogical condition that determines the person, is kept. The another characteristic feature of epistolary I is the openness of author’s intentions expressed in calling for a real interlocutor.