STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE PLOT AND COMPOSITION OF THE
HISTORICAL STORIES OF M. MOROZENKO’S DILOGY "IVAN SIRKO, THE GREAT SORCERER", "IVAN SIRKO, THE GLORIOUS KOSHOVOY"
Authors: Verba T. 
Published: January 2020

The writers pay increased attention to the philosophical and historiographical
interpretation of events and phenomena, the moral and human essence of historical
persons, which absorbs their upbringing, social roles, and innate mental dominants.
The article establishes that the main types of plot creation of historical novels are
chronicled, events in which unfold in a temporal sequence, and concentric (“single
action”), where events develop in a causal relationship. The conceptual storyline of the
novel by M. Morozenko “Ivan Sirko, the Great Sorcerer” is the confrontation of the young
main character and the pompous instigator of the youthful detachment Taras Chornoplit.
The situation, which is repeated in chivalrous novels, is elegantly modeled. The character of the opponents is checked for stability: the enraged Taras Chornoplit threw Ivan Polovets, who is smaller, on the grass, but the last one did not lose his head and fought back. The fight between them will be one of the plot engines. In the real moments of the greatest tension of the conflict, Sirko’s legendary supernatural abilities are woven, because he learned from the characters to see the innermost as well. The confrontation continued.
The struggle between good and evil is organically woven into the outline of the plot
of the story “Ivan Sirko, the Glorious Koshovoy”: the military fame of the fellow
countryman strangled Chornoplit, and he slandered him. Further plot situations are saturated with fantasy: confusing feet, Chornoplit approached the Sich gates, but it was as if someone had moved them. In the morning he woke up far from the gates and was
suddenly captured by the Tatars.
The culmination of the clash was Sirko's response to treason against his native land. If
Taras carries unworthy fame from here and disgraces his native Merefyanka, then death
will be the punishment. The second time Sirko pushed Chornoplit as if he were something nasty and ugly.
According to the results of the study, it was found that episodes of the confrontation
between Sirko and Chornoplit constitute an event chain of verification of the moral qualities of the characters. It shows that for the writer, the preservation and development of the best achievements of the past, the proactive search for connections with folklore science fiction is especially relevant and important.
Different orders have compositional components of the novels of dilogy: descriptions, landscapes, portraits, monologues, dialogues, polylogues. They are enriched by the reproduction of the human perception of the world seen and experienced by the characters in stories, the connections between them and events, the fixation of individual communicative situations.
Magical landscapes are consonant with the moods of the citizen of Merefyanka; their souls turn to ancient sources. The majestic landscape of Khortytsia personifies the Cossack defense and glory. Khortytsia represents in the story not only a landscape type, but also a component of historical memory in the process of creating a nation. Emotionally respectful attitude to the cradle of the Cossacks forms a personal consciousness.
Sirko's verbal and artistic portraits describe a temperamental personality at different age. In postmodern narratives, M. Morozenko, instead of full reproductions of the personality of the main character, draws attention only to the leading features in various
life situations.
The novelism of the stories allowed the writer to achieve the desired laconicism in affirming historical memory, human good and justice, the need to talk with the young reader about the most important thing – friendship and child cruelty, truth and injustice,
love and hatred, about the attitude to parents and the active character of the little hero,
about Cossack feats.
Keywords: opening, culmination, event chain, retrospection.