Performativs as a means of language personality characteristics (based on the letters by A.S. Pushkin)

There is seen the range of most common perfomativs used in A.S. Pushkin's letters. The conformity of these performativs to definite speech acts is proved. The peculiarities of performativ usage in the epistolary texts of different genre are researched. The role of performativs in the language personality characterics is established.