Narrator and reconstruction of history in the novels by M.Renault and R.Graves

In the article it was made an attempt to conduct the comparative analysis of the image of the narrator and of the historicism of Mary Renault and Robert Graves. The author compares the interpretation of the historical facts and the images of the historical figures, finds similarities and differences, basing on the longstanding tradition of the English historical novel originated from the novels of Walter Scott. The author demonstrates that the writers' interpretation of the great historical personality gets away from the stereotype but it doesn't contradict the historical reality.