Abstract
The article explores the ways a literary canon manifests itself in A. Bukeikhanov’s socio-political discourse in his Russian essays. It emphasizes Bukeikhanov’s principled adherence to the literary behests of M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, G. Uspensky, A. Chekhov in expressing sympathy for the laboring man on soil and the satirical mockery of the powers that be. Bukeikhanov's extensive historical and literary commentary on events related to the imperial policy of resettling landless Russian peasants to Kazakh lands, harks back to the traditions of Russian prose in the second half of the 19th century that reflected the reality by typifying socio-political phenomena testifying to the general crisis of the autocracy. The article describes speech techniques and rhetorical figures in evidence of A. Bukeikhanov's adherence to a particular literary canon.
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