GEOCULTURAL IMAGES OF THE VOLGA REGION IN LITERATURE: MATERIAL FOR A LITERARY ATLAS

Abstract

Literary text creates vivid images of geographic places and thereby «maps» the space — it is used inprojects to create new tourist attractions. The article considers the literary heritage of a vast region —the Volga region, names the main literary places, quotes from works of art in which the geocultural images of the cities of Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan are formed. The key image of the region is the VolgaRiver — the «breadwinner» and «mother» of Russia. On the Volga, paths converge and diverge to the center, to the Russian North, to the Urals and to Asia;