Literary text as a source of sociological analysis of political culture

The article reflects a methodological search concerning the study of the influence of historical traditions on the political culture of Russian society, as well as the possibility of moving away from them or, conversely, their retention and application in political governance. As one of the alternative methods of studying the depth of political and cultural traditions, the author proposes a sociological analysis of literary texts. The basis of this methodology is the thesis that the social context present in the literary field can be the subject of research in the system of modern sociology, since it reproduces the realities of social space, as well as the value bases of various kinds of social phenomena, processes and relationships. The method proposed by the author is tested on the example of one of the most famous literary texts of the Russian classics - A.S. Pushkin’s novel “Dubrovsky”.