ЛАДОГА В ПРОЗІ М. СЕМЕНОВОЇ: ХУДОЖНЯ РЕКОНСТРУКЦІЯ ЖИТТЯ СЕРЕДНЬОВІЧНОГО МІСТА ТА ЇЇ ІСТОРИКО-АРХЕОЛОГІЧНИЙ КОНТЕКСТ. Стаття третя

The article reviews M.Semenova’s works “Swans fl y away”, “Pelko and wolves”, “Wizard”, “Valkyrie” etc., which plots somehow deal with Ladoga. The publication tries to describe the peculiarities of the literary life reconstruction of the early medieval city in its bonds with the following experience of the past decades, to focus one’s attention on the author’s particular choice of historical and archeological data for modelling characters and scenes. It is stressed that M.Semenova’s knowledge of the studied material is presented through the diverse detailed information as well as through the writer’s desire to achieve the correspondence between characters’ psychology and the distinguishing features of the given historical period. The article can be practical for clarifying the author’s view of the events in the 9th century in its connection with the modern scientifi c theories on the role and place of Ladoga in East Slavic history, being extended with various interpretations of the defi nite historical period in the fi ction of the present. Key words: historical narrative literature, early medieval Ladoga, “calling of the Varangians” in fi ction, historical actualization, context, author’s idea, Rus origins