The wise humility: influence of Book of Ecclesiastes on the concept of the meaning of being in N.S. Leskov's chronicle "A decayed family"

The preceding text of Leskov's epigraph from the Book of Ecclesiastes becomes a reference point in the field of the chronicles' meanings, sets the direction for the unfolding events, although the writer's attitude has a number of important nuances - all of this, with examples of excerpts from the texts of Ecclesiastes and Leskov, fully reflected in the article.