Russian prose with a genius loci

The contribution Russian Prose with a Genius Loci is focused on current Russian female prose writers who in different genres and different themes pay attention to a socially dissimilar type and dissimilar experience of a female literary character associated through her personal history with the city of Moscow. The purpose of a female character involvement in the plot is based on topical issues of the individual coping with one's own life, consideration how to protect it against changes and concentration on the fundamental social change in the value of one's own existence. The female writers do not moralize, do not create unsolvable subject cases. On the contrary, with a bird's-eye view or seriously they consider how to preserve the authenticity of their literary characters, how to show their personalities and strength and how not to resign from the values that would satisfy the life of a mother, wife, meet her professional ambitions and retain her uniqueness in relation to who she lives with and what she experiences. The selection of an urban location and its population serve as the internal ethnic attribute and historical symbol. A universally restored myth of the city of Moscow compared with other Russian cities is emotionally understood only by its residents.