The garden image in the horizontally oriented spatial model of the world in Sergey Yesenin’s works

In modern science of language, it is important to study the peculiarities of modeling and verbalization of space in the works of the carriers of Russian linguoculture. However, space is not presented as a certain extension, it is constituted by the objects the images of which are formed in the human consciousness. One of the key images of the horizontally oriented spatial model of the world in the works by Sergey Yesenin is the image of the garden. In this paper, the garden image is considered as a plot of land (expressed by the sad (garden) lexeme), and a set of cultivated plants (objectified in the analyzed texts by the ryabina (rowan) and vishnya (cherry) nominations). Attention is drawn to the fact that the garden as an image is represented in Yesenin's works by a number of metaphorical models, including such models as “tree - object of material culture”, “garden - man”, etc. The purpose of the article is to describe the means of explication of this image in Yesenin's poems. The study resulted in identifying the individual author's features of modeling space in his lyric poetry, in which the image of the garden is closely connected with a person and their house, and also acts as a link between generations. The results of the study can be used in university courses on lexical semantics, image theory, linguocultural studies, and ethnolinguistics.