The creative works by A. Segen in the context of discussions about the spiritual realism(on the material of publicism)

The article is devoted to the elucidation of specific features of A. Segens’ spiritual realism. The author supposes that the ethical meaning of historical events, as well as the moral dominant determined by the author’s world outlook, explain the interaction of fact and fiction in creative works, thus being the foundation for the typology of realistic phenomenona in modern literature.