Onomastic space of provincial text of Russian literature in works by A.P. Bunina

The paper examines regional anthroponyms and toponyms that form the regional onomastic space of the works by the first professional Russian poetess A.P. Bunina. The issue under discussion is of interest from the point of view of cultural and historical memory representation. The purpose of the article is to analyze the onomastic space of Provincial supertext, reflected in poetic, prose, epistolary, and other works by A.P. Bunina. The relevance of the work is accounted for by the need to study regional anthroponyms and toponyms as symbolic resources of regional precedent texts that are included in the process of self-identification of the Russian linguistic personality, and contribute to the study of the history and culture of the small homeland through significant proper names. A number of general scientific (observation, comparison, description) and special philological methods have been applied in the research, among them are contextual, semantic analysis, and the method of interpreting dictionary definitions. In the process of studying the works by A.P. Bunina, regional anthroponyms and toponyms and the appellatives interacting with them have been identified, which give the texts an autobiographical character. It is concluded that in the poetess’ individual worldview kinship and friendship are among the highest values, which are marked by the linguistic units under consideration, representing the most important fragments of her biography, her moral image.