Abstract
The article is dedicated to a narrative element that can be found in a number of texts featuring Nadezda Durova, we refer to it as an episode with a snake. The article hypothesizes that the episode is a mythologeme that has several meanings. Based on the results of the study, the following conclusions were made regarding the episode with a snake: it refers to an ancient Greek myth of Hercules’s childhood; it appears as an allusion to the biblical legend of the serpentadversary; it acts as an allegorical image of the enemy conquest. Thus, in the studied number of texts featuring Durova the episode with a snake acquires significance of a mythologem, which in the context of her story denotes the initiation of the heroine.
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