FREE NOBLEMEN’S “ANSWER” TO CATHERINE II IN THE GENRES OF AMICABLE MESSAGE AND FAIRY POEM FROM THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY TILL THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY 

Akimova Tatyana Ivanovna, Candidate of philological sciences, associate professor, sub-department of Russian and foreign literature, Mordovia State University (Saransk), akimova_ti@mail.ru

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The article deals with the mechanisms of influencing the literary process of the end of XVIII – first quarter of the XIX century education policies of Catherine II, implemented by means of literature. Thus, a manifesto for the setting the noblemen free, ideologically contained in «The Tale of tsarevitch Chlorine», was vividly read by G.R. Derzhavin in «Felice» and interpreted by subsequent authors in the genre of a friendly message, and the genre of a fairy-tale poem by A.S. Pushkin in «Ruslan and Lyudmila».

Catherine II enlightenment, the status of free noblemen, a genre of a friendly message, a genre of a fairy-tale poem, author's self-consciousness, ideology of the educated absolutism, a fairy-tale genre, literary process.