Lexicographic description of the word “hell” in the “Dictionary of the language of M. E. Saltykov-Schedrin”. Preliminary comments to the review

The subject of this article is the lexicographical description of the word “hell” in the “Dictionary of the language of M. E. Saltykov-Schedrin”. Authors determined the lexical meaning of the word, its contextual associative senses. All this creates a special area of review, which describes the specifics of the author’s understanding of this important cultural concept in the General context of Russian literature.