Lexical-semantic fields "pride" and "love" in N.V. Gogol's spiritual prose: meaning and sense of key lexemes

The purpose of spiritual and religious revival of Russia is connected with the need for a new reading of Russian classical literature. One of the tools for studying spiritual prose is the reconstruction of lexical and semantic fields that represent the phenomena of Christian life. The originality of Gogol’s worldview, his views on the place of the Christian components in the social and spiritual life of Russia, on the way of its development are clarified in the article by examples of identifying the usual and contextual meanings and senses of lexemes pride and love.