Symboliс Functions of Pictures in N. Kolyada's Play 'The Boater Hat'

В статье рассматривается символика интермедиальных референций (живописных картин) в пьесе "Канотье" известного уральского драматурга Николая Коляды. The article studies symbolic functions of intermedial references to paintings in the play "The Boater Hat" by the famous Urals playwright, director and actor Nikolai Kolyada. Although this play has repeatedly become the subject of attention of Russian researchers and critics in the context of other works by Kolyada, the symbolism of the paintings in it has not yet been specially considered. A detailed analysis of the ekphrasis of twopaintings by the characterhero-painter Viktor Sukhinin has revealed their polysemantic functions in portraying the characters and presenting the main conflict of the play.