Images of the Crimean War in the historical novel K. Hibbert "Crimean Company of 1854-1855. The tragedy of Lord Raglan"

This article analyzes the research in Russian literature, and although Russian literary critics hardly study Hibbert's creativity, his works enjoy popularity not only in the writer's native land, but also throughout the world. This paper is a work of the cognitive interpretation of the results of linguistic research, the lexical and semantic modeling of images, and the dominant artistic space of the historical novel, "The Crimean campaign of 1854-1855. The tragedy of Lord Raglan". It was shown that the images of the war have a significant value in the worldview of the author and serve as a key to unlock the problems of the novels focused on the fate of the "historical personality".