The study combines literary, historical, cultural and linguistic methods of analysis.
The study focuses on the linguistic concept of "instructional discourse" in its broad interpretation, thematic diversity and stylistic variability.
The author reveals that the instructive intention in the work of Gaito gazdanov can receive both explicit embodiment in statements with different degrees of directorial tonality, and be embodied in indirect speech genres.
Instructional discourse in the analyzed works of art acts as a means of embodying the individual author's worldview.
This kind of implicit instructive discourse is characteristic of creativity, which, without recognizing the right of literature to edification, chooses an unobtrusive path of instruction through the presentation of life cases or, at least, stories, posed as real.
Gaito Gazdanov's narrative strategy combines parable didactics, author's irony, emotionality and at the same time regularity and lyricism in a complex interaction.