THE EVOLUTION OF THE HERO'S IMAGE IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE XVIII CENTURY

The article examines the evolution of the hero's image in 18th-century Russian literature in the context of changing artistic trends and the transformation of aesthetic paradigms of the era. The movement from the normative-allegorical model of personality in the system of classicism to the socio-educational and further to the emotional-psychological concept of a person in sentimentalism is analyzed. Based on the works of Alexander Sumarokov, Mikhail Lomonosov, Denis Fonvizin, Gavriil Derzhavin, Alexander Radishchev and Nikolai Karamzin, structural changes in the characterological organization of the hero, the principles of motivation of his actions and ways of artistic representation of the inner world are revealed.