Artistic Reception of the Folk-Tale Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

The article is devoted to the study of the specific features of the artistic assimilation of the folk-tale tradition in nineteenth-century Russian literature. The research analyzes the mechanisms through which folkloric models were transformed within authorial literary discourse and examines the functioning of fairy-tale motifs, images, and compositional elements in the works of Russian writers. Particular attention is paid to the creative heritage of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky, Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Leo Tolstoy. The study demonstrates that the literary fairy tale of the nineteenth century became not merely a form of artistic reinterpretation of folklore, but also an important means of philosophical, moral, and social reflection upon reality. The article concludes that the appeal to the fairy-tale tradition played a significant role in the formation of the national artistic system of Russian literature.