Natalia G. Dolzhenko Doctor of philological sciences, assistant professor of the Russian language department, professor of the philology department Ugra State University Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia [email protected]
Soskunova Olga Andreevna Bachelor of philology Ugra State University Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia [email protected]
Abstract. The article deals with the features of epistolary genre by the example of the letters of A.P. Chekhov to his wife, О. Knipper-Chekhova, and wife to him. In this correspondencethe vocatives were analyzed, as the most interesting and revealing element of the original style of the great writer, and in particular important element of national and cultural heritage in general.
Keywords: epistolary genre, vocative, style, epithet, pronoun.