Specificity of the Genre “The Story of a Lifetime Miracle” in the Lives of Russian Holy Fools

Abstract

The material for the study is the Russian lives of the fools (19th–20th centuries), the object of the study is the varieties of stories about miracles in the composition of the lives. The thematic varieties of miracles, the realization of communicative and pragmatic parameters of the genre, structural features of the stories are revealed. A comparative characteristic of the communicative and pragmatic models of the lifetime miracles of heroes, embodying different types of holiness, — the holy fools and the venerable, is carried out. The identification and definition of a new type of miracle — a miraculous prophecy — is substantiated.