Continuity of folklore traditions in the prose of P.A. Oyunsky

The prose of P.A. Oyunsky acquires the literary character while transferring from the early folklore works to the fictional ones. The necessity of studying the issue of folklore tradition in the prose of P.A. Oyunsky is dictated both by the urgent demands of fictional practice and the theoretical tasks. The aim of the work is to reveal the specific features of interpretation of folklore motives and the figures in the story “Nikolay Dorogunov – the Hawk of the Lena” by P.A. Oyunsky.