The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the subject of the article is the question of the influence of L. D. Trotsky [Bronstein], who was one of the key leaders of Bolshevism, who headed the October Revolution, on the worldview and creativity of M. M. Prishvin, which has not yet been considered in the European studies. It is shown that in Russian art it is difficult to find an artist of the word, whose work would be to the same extent conditioned by the influence of the ideological and political context. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time an attempt was made to show how, through individual characters in his works, Prishvin in an artistic and figurative form reflected the characteristic features of behavior, everyday habits, the style of thinking and speech of Trotsky. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of previously unpublished due to censorship restrictions of the writer’s works: the story “The World Cup”, journalism of the revolutionary years and the 18-volume Diary, which became available to the reader only in the post-Soviet period. It is shown that, depicting Trotsky as a “pharmacist” who, according to his recipes, is trying to create the future of a huge country, Prishvin seeks not only to artistically reflect his moral appearance and personality traits, but also to convey the features of the ideological and political struggle in Soviet society.

Of scientific interest is the process and the result of the cognitive activity of law enforcement, which affects the functioning of the entire legal system. The problem of developing the professional legal conscience of law enforcement is revealed through the study of its value component, so the reference to the legal axiology of 19th-century Russian conservatism is a relevant scientific issue. The authors consider the opinions of the main conservative thinkers of the pre-revolutionary period: K. N. Leontiev and K. P. Pobedonostsev, the heritage of I. A. Ilyin that belongs to the first quarter of the twentieth century, etc. It is concluded that professional legal understanding must be based both on the modern legal paradigm and on the national legal tradition, mentality and established positive social practices. It is necessary to correlate values of the ethical and legal categories: justice and truth, rights and duties, dignity and honor, freedom, equality, order, etc. It can be said that the modern legal conscience of special subjects accumulates many legal values of Russian conservatism, including "justice", "order", "responsibility".

The acquaintance with a Soviet party leader and politician B. E. Kalmykov made a signifi cant impact on the worldview and work of M. M. Prishvin in the mid-1930s. The writer even intended to make him the key fi gure of his novel — a fighter for national happiness who leads the Soviet Kabardino-Balkaria to Socialism; the alleged title of the work, "The Happy Mountain", is most indicative.

The novelty of the study is seen in the unexplored question about Prishvin’s attitude to Stalin’s cult of personality. The evolution of the writer’s views on the role of Stalin in the establishment and development of the Soviet state is considered based on the material first introduced into scientific circulation, summarized from the 18-volume Pryshvin’s “Diary”, which became available to the reader only recently. The aim of the study is to show that as a man with a historiosophical mindset, Pryshvin is far from thinking that the cause of the cult of personality is solely Stalin’s fault because of his treachery and despotism. It is noted that the significance of Prishvin’s conclusions about the origins and causes of the Stalinist cult also lies in the fact that the writer’s conclusions largely anticipate the conclusions of many later researchers of the Soviet era. It has been established that Prishvin’s analysis of the objective and subjective factors of the emergence of Stalin’s personality cult shows the reader that before him is not only a talented artist of words, but also an extraordinary thinker with his own philosophical view on the most pressing ideological-political, economic and socio-cultural problems of his time.

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the subject of the article is the question of who was the real prototype of the Chekist Sutulov in Prishvin’s novel “Tsar’s road”, which has not yet been considered in the history of foreign affairs. It is shown that in Russian literature it is difficult to find master of the pen, whose work would be to the same extent conditioned by the influence of the ideological and political context. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time an attempt was made to show how, through the artistic image of the Chekist Sutulov, one of the main characters of the novel “Tsar’s Road”, Prishvin seeks to reflect the ideo-logical and political attitudes, characteristic features of behavior, style of thinking and speech of Stalin. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the 18-volume “Diary” of the writer, which was not previously published due to censorship restrictions, which became available to the reader only in the post-Soviet period. It is shown that, through the artistic image of Sutulov, Prishvin gives his personal assessment of Stalin’s role in the development of the state, striving to artistically faithfully and truthfully reflect the characteristic features of that atmosphere of economic, political and spiritual super-tension in which Soviet society lived in the 1930s on the eve of the Great Patriotic War.