Religious motives in book "Two brothers" of Dmitry Urushev

The article is devoted to the study of the current phenomenon of Old Believer literature. The material of the study was the Old Believer fairy tale of Dmitry Urushev «Two Brothers», which thematically continues the previously published book «Star Altair». The relevance of the work is also emphasized by the choice of material that did not previously become the subject of special literary analysis. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the manifestation of religious motives in the book of Dmitry Urushev. The article names the motives traditional for religious literature: the motive for finding faith, the motive for selling a soul to the devil, the motive for self-sacrifice, the motive for saving prayer. During the analysis, the author reveals the central motive of the work, which determines the artistic features of the text - the ideological content of the tale, the plot of the work, the system of images of characters. An important feature of D. Urushevv’s book «Two Brothers» in the study is the author’s genre nomination, which allows you to harmoniously interweave fabulous and religious elements in the artistic structure, mix time layers, details of various cultures.