HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHIC GENRE IN LITERATURE (А. TOLSTOY "PETER I", A. DZHAFARZADE "BAKU-1501")
In article from positions of today's time the historical and biographic genre is analyzed. On material of the Russian and Azerbaijani prose, considered in the comparative plan, through a prism of various types of the relations of authors-storytellers. Also in article it is told about a historical genre in Russian and Azerbaijani literatures. It is marked out the main lines of the historical novel (M. M. Bakhtin). Also classification of the historical novel is provided. The main problem of the historical novelized biography "person and history" is solved in a new way, in dependence not only on world outlooks of the writer, but also on the general social and philosophical aspirations of an era. It is ideological motivation of relevance of historical novels.