Gender in the artistic universe of N. A. Nekrasov

The article offers a discourse of N.A. Nekrasov's artistic worldview from the positions of a cultural, philosophical and anthropological approach to the gender issues. The main task is to identify and study the gender-determined intentions of the universe formed by Nekrasov. The scientific significance of the article is determined both by the integrative culturological algorithm of gender analysis in N.A. Nekrasov's artistic universe and by the established (and compensated) paradox: the gender-oriented discourse of N.A. Nekrasov's heritage, who is known in the Russian mass consciousness as a singer of «miserable woman's life», has so far been realized only occasionally and almost without considering the masculine specificity. The article presents the results of cultural, philosophical and anthropological analysis, systematizes various manifestations of femininity and masculinity in Nekrasov's texts and describes the experience of studying both the names and the composition and organization of the character system. «Overcrowded» and colorful Nekrasov's universe correlates with the gender differentiation of the characters. The authors of the article present the diversity of the Russian world, which is based on an interdisciplinary understanding of Nekrasov's artistic worldview, including such theoretical positions and relevant empirical experience as literary tradition (romantic heroes and realistic types), conventional-symbolic, national-cultural, sociological, as well as mundane and professional ones.