Russian Literary Process in the 1760-1770s: Novel as a Representative of Interconnection of Epistemic Reproductive Models

The paper deals with the Russian literary process in the middle of the 18th century and correlation of the genre of a novel with the system of classicistic genres. The emphasis is placed on the novel as a representative of the epistemological transition from the dual philosophical literary reality patterns having a monolingual code to the ternary bilingual model of interconnection between non-literary reality and its literary model. This resulted in the durable idea of identity and replaceability of literature and reality in the Russian aesthetic consciousness.