History rivers: on the typology of time sense in the literature at the turn of the centuries and in the Soviet art of the 1920s -1930s years.
The time stream and history destiny changes thought over by Mark Twain in "The adventures of Huckleberry Finn", by Jerome K. Jerome in "Three men in a boat to say nothing about the dog", by M. Zoschenko in "The accident on the Volga" are revealed through the image of a river in the article.