The image of a thing as marker of Christmas chronotope in the story "The White Eagle" written by N.S. Leskov
The paper summarizes the works of scholars of chronotope. Based on them signs of time and space in a literary work are marked. It is found that the chronotope plays the important part because it determines the artistic unity of a literary work in its relation to reality. The results of the study of the chronotope and the material world as an example of Christmas story «The White Eagle» written by N.S. Leskov are presented. It is established that the story «The White Eagle» is a typical for the genre of Christmas story and its story takes place in two time dimensions.