Modern rhetorical narratives in the optics of Russian rhetoric

Modern Russian rhetoric, which appeared like a Phoenix from the ashes at the end of the 20th century and found its expression in numerous monographs, textbooks and scientific conferences, is mainly based on the Russian rhetorical tradition. The beginning of this tradition was laid back in the 17 th-18th centuries by the works of Sophro-nius Likhud, Stefan Yavorsky, V.K. Trediakovsky, M.V. Lomonosov and other thinkers. This significantly distinguishes rhetoric from other humanities oriented largely towards the achievements of Western scholars. It should be noted that it was in the second half of the twentieth century that rhetoric returned to scientific discourse, thanks to the works of F. de Saussure, R.O. Jacobson, H. Perelman, N. Kholmsky and others. The ideas of these thinkers (creators of semiotics) go back to the works of the ancient founders of rhetoric (Aristotle, Cicero, Marcian Capella). With the help of semiotics, it was possible to bring rhetoric beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries to an understanding of rhetoric as an ontology. The writings of the domestic representatives of rhetoric are still insufficiently studied. In this optic, this article examines, firstly, the objective correlation between logic and rhetoric on the example of the trivium “Logic-Rhetoric-Literature” by I.S. Rizhsky, author of textbooks on logic, rhetoric and literature in the late 18th century, and, secondly, the creative path of this undeservedly forgotten scholar. Rizhsky recreated the format of the relationship between logic and rhetoric, similar to the approach of M. Capella (grammar-logic-rhetoric), and this format has largely survived to our time. I.S. Rizhsky's textbook “Experience of Rhetoric” can be considered as a formalization of the independent way of rhetoric, which, in the absence of logic, often becomes sophistry. Logic under such an approach (before the emergence of symbolic logic) became perceived as a secondary knowledge, a constituent part of Russian literature. Nowadays, Russian rhetoric, which goes back to the above-mentioned works, underpins narrative methods of persuasion and information dissemination in the media and social media.