THE CHARACTER SYSTEM OF HISTORICAL WORKS BY I. EFIMOV AS A RECEPTION OF THE WRITER’s PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT
I.M. Efimov is a Soviet and Russian abroad writer. His historical works have profound philosophical content. This philosophical content is revealed when we compare his historiosophical treatises about the character and patterns of historical development and historical novels. Philosophical ideas of the writer appear on different poetic levels of the work, and above all - in the plot and character system. Historical novels and historical-philosophical treatises constitute a single historiosophical system and relate to each other as theoretical and empirical material, therefore they cannot be considered one without the other. However, many critics analyze the writer's historical works in isolation from his philosophical concept, which makes such an analysis incomplete and sometimes erroneous. In our study, an attempt was made to trace the connection between the individual characters of the artistic historical works of I. Efimov with his philosophical concept.