First polemica N.S. Leskova in the newspaper "Contemporary medicine"

Kalesnik Elena Yurevna

The article is devoted to the early journalism of Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov and his first polemic in the Kiev newspaper "Modern medicine" in the early 1860s.the article analyzes the features of polemic techniques and speech means used by Leskov in this polemic, shows the conditionality of their choice of personal beginning, the relationship with the individual style of Leskov-publicist.

Keywords:journalism of the 1860-ies, polemic, polemical techniques, individual style.GN With. Leskov, social issues.