Symbolics of honey and bee in creativity of Andrey Denisov

The paper deals with the literary function of the ancient metaphors connected with images of honey and bees, which are in compositions of the old believe writer of the 18 th century Andrey Denisov used. The role of symbolics of bees in Vyg Old-Believers mythology and in literary interpretation of the Vyg Utopia is investigated. As well as in an antiquity, by means of metaphors of honey and bees representation about work of the writer is formed, and the monastery appears as a beehive where bees-monks, fans of book wisdom, work. Thus, leaning on baroque theories of a word, the old believe writer was built in literary tradition.