Representation of the charismatic personality type in memoirs and artistic and documentary Russian literature of the early 20th century

The aim is to identify, based on a study of the artistic and documentary works of the former hieromonk Iliodor (S. Trufanov), Prince F. F. Yusupov, memoirist P. Kovalevsky, publicist I. Kovyl-Bobyl, and writer in the genre of documentary prose K. Paustovsky, the psychological techniques and linguistic markers used by prose writers to recreate literary portraits of two charismatic figures in Russia – Grigory Rasputin ("the great elder", "holy devil") and Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin (leader of the world proletariat), whose life and influence on the fate of the Fatherland had fatal consequences. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it is the first time, in the process of literary and historical analysis of memoirs and Russian-language artistic and documentary texts of the early 20th century, literary portraits of charismatic figures in Russia G. Rasputin and V. Lenin are reconstructed and compared, and psychological techniques and linguistic markers used by prose writers to characterize their common and special qualities are identified. As a result, it was established that in the literary gallery of portraits of historical figures of the early 20th century, G. Rasputin and V. Ulyanov-Lenin are the most colorful charismatic personalities, whose lives and destinies are somewhat similar. They are both carriers of ideologies: religion and Marxist-Leninist teachings, both tried to build a society of "bright future", which led both them and the society to fatal consequences for Russia. The portrait of Rasputin is given by his contemporaries in dynamics, evolutionarily, and the portrait of Lenin is presented by K. Paustovsky in a mosaic manner, fragmentarily with the manifestation of his bright charismatic qualities.