SEMANTICS OF SPACE AS A METAPHYSICAL CATEGORY IN RUSSIAN CLASSICAL PROSE

• Gulchekhra Israilovna Berdikulova

  Lecturer, Department of Russian Language and Literature Karshi State University

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The article examines space in Russian classical prose as a metaphysical structure that determines the modes of a character’s existence and the laws of artistic reality. The analysis draws on contemporary scholarly discourse on spatiotemporal models, presented in the reports of the conference “Space and Time in Russian Literature and Philosophy”, where the chronotope is interpreted not as a compositional device but as a form of ontological experience. The focus is placed on the interaction between the real and the transcendent levels of space, manifested in the works of Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Chekhov.
The methodological framework is based on the concepts of Bakhtin, Florensky, Ukhtomsky, and Losev, whose works make it possible to interpret space as a carrier of profound meanings related to anthropology, historical sensibility, and the spiritual topography of the Russian world. Spatial configurations in classical prose are interpreted as transitional zones between the visible and the hidden, between factual events and their metaphysical foundation. In Dostoevsky’s texts, space registers the tension between the human soul and the ultimate states of being; in Tolstoy, it shapes the modeling of historical time; in Turgenev, it becomes a mediator between natural and internal rhythms; in Chekhov, it transforms into a structure marked by the disintegration of meaning and experience.

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