Typology of short story genre in «Silver» age

Age between XIX - XX has paradoxical character in Russia. On the one hand it is social-economic crisis. But this is the reason of cultural and philosophic increase of society. The end of XIX and the beginning of XX century is Renaissance of short epic forms and a genre of short story particularly. The author of the article analyses the short stories of the book by Elena Guro «The heaven camels». So the author makes a conclusion about real existence of short story genre between XIX - XX ages. He makes classification of the short stories by E. Guro and mentions about their plastic structures stylization, the main qualities of genre short stories of «silver» age.