[01] Baglan Bazylova, Head of the Department, Kazakh State Women's Teacher Training University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. [02] Zhanna Zhussupova, Head of the Department, K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional State University, Aktobe, Kazakhstan.

In the Russian prose of the XIX century the genre of a literary portrait was considered as characteristic of a specific person presented in the form of memoirs. The image of the hero defines purpose, choice of means and composition of a literary portrait. The supervision and impressions imprinted in the author's memory serve as material for careful selection of details which recreate contemporaries’ images. The literary portrait of Tolstoy "The great pilgrim" was published in 1922. The article considers memoir sketch "The great pilgrim" in the context of journalism of Korolenko who possesses expressed signs of literary portrait genre. Its structure represents a complete art ensemble motivated with special type of a subject situation. It is a situation of direct communication where impression of the memoirist reveals. Korolenko's meetings with Tolstoy depicted in the introduction to "The great pilgrim" couldn't be "organically introduced" in this structure. In art "incompleteness" of memoirs received an embodiment Korolenko's thought of continuous search of truth by Tolstoy artist and thinker. The subsequent creativity of Tolstoy confirmed justice of supervision and art conclusions of the memoirist.

Literary Portrait, Structure of Work, Image of the Hero, Publicistic Reception

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