Marionettes in Saltykov-Schedrin's art
The subject of this article is various manifestations of marionette's nature of Saltykov-Schedrin's characters. Puppet's features show through the apt body behavior: automatism of gestures, theatrical movements. Even if there is no marionette image in the work, characters' behavior reveals their mechanistic essence. In the sphere of spiritual life characters-puppets are deprived of human content: their speech is very primitive and their inner world is often beyond the scope of the story. In addition, the article studies the connection between the puppet theme and the death theme.