Abstract

The article explores various interpretations of the image of a lawyer in the works of art of late Imperial Russia. As examples of artistic interpretation whencreating the image of asworn attorney at the beginning of the XXcentury, the authorchose the works of A.M. Gorky “Mother” and “The Life of Klim Samgin”. In the course of a comparative analysis of the texts of these works of art, as well as sources of personal origin of lawyers N. K. Muravyov and V. A. Maklakov the author identifies and compares the characteristic moral and psychological features and features of the activities of fictional characters and real representatives of the Russian legal profession as possible prototypes of Gorky literary heroes.

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