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The present essay is devoted to images of old age in the work of the Russian writer Valentin Rasputin (1937–2015). The artistic representation of aging plays a meaningful role in the poetics of the Siberian author, and the thick, transversal presence of the motive gives us the opportunity to examine the different modes it is described in the texts. The old villagers’ figures аre analyzed on the background...