High didactics of I.A. Novikov

The article is devoted to the prose by the little known to the contemporary reader, but well-known at the beginning of the XXth century writer I.A. Novikov in the aspect of well traced didactics of narration. Special attention is paid to the "new religious consciousness" by which the writer's creative work proclaims Christianity as a religion of happy life and future improvement of the world and man. The fiction structures of the works, making the most effective impact of the author's consciousness principles on the recipient's one are analyzed.