ОБРАЗ САДА В ПОВЕСТИ «СЕМЕЙНОЕ СЧАСТЬЕ» Л.Н. ТОЛСТОГО

In this article, the research attention is directed to the disclosure of the meta-image of the garden in L.N. Tolstoy's "Family Happiness". The image of the garden is directly or symbolically included in the event canvas of Tolstoy's text through the "inner" characters. The garden becomes a point of intersection of different space-time dimensions: natural and human; real and magical; past, present and future. Through the smallest details of the garden, human experiences are exposed: the line between the "image" of the external and the "expression" of the internal is removed. "External" and "internal" merge in the process of direct contemplation and experience. The closer Tolstoy's characters are to the manor garden, the more fully and consciously they obey its simplest and "mysterious" laws, the morally cleaner they are and have a direct view of the world. This is how the liberation of human consciousness from the hypnosis of general perception takes place and the human essence of the characters, their experiences appear as they are in themselves. For Tolstoy, nature is the natural environment and the metaphysical substance of the human. A person who is cut off from his natural environment loses his fundamental quality – belonging to the whole, the "universal". The materials of the article can be used in the practice of teaching historical and literary and theoretical literature courses at the university, as well as Russian literature in educational institutions of various levels.