title: Literary Biopic about the Poet Rudaki
abstract: The article deals with the genre of literary biopic, its difference from traditional biography. The armature of a biopic is historical names and events, and its content is connected with the culture of the epoch, elements of everyday life of a certain time that do not contradict the historical reality. In methodological terms, the study is based on the works of Y.M. Lotman, S. Leslie, M.B. Rarenko, and R. Fry. At the center of the article is the analysis of Andrei Volos's novel «Return to Panjru
journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University