The article is based on the theory developed by P. Picchio's of two ways of development of Slavic cultures and literatures, Slavia Orthodoxa and Slavia Romana, which differ due to historical-ideological and linguistic factors. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of the formation and genre and style transformation of Slavia Orthodoxa literature as an original model of culture influenced by the Orthodox branch of Christianity and Slavic Church language, dialectically related to Slavia Romana and included in the context of the European (global) cultural tradition. Although the general patterns of continuous interpenetration of folk culture, language, and fiction are the same for Slavia Orthodoxa and Slavia Romana, the development of Eastern Slavic literature had its own specifics that determine its current state. The main feature of Slavia Orthodoxa is the dynamics of literary development: the trends and styles of the already formed literary heritage of Western Europe were uncontrollably perceived by the representatives of Slavia Orthodoxa, which led to the reduction of a number of directions and trends (such as Renaissance and Baroque) to their individual features and to the convergence of different stylistic trends. The peculiar dynamics of the literary process predetermined the specific development of literary forms, primarily the evolution of genres that were born at the intersection of national folklore tradition, written Church Slavonic heritage and Western European genre system. The continuity of the development of Slavia Orthodoxa literature has always been ensured by a number of invariable substantive characteristics, which include the role of a prophet and, at the same time, a martyr, a hermit, attention to biblical (especially Old Testament) themes and motifs (Lotman), the invariance and systemic significance of the Easter archetype (Yesaulov). Despite the connection of Slavia Orthodoxa with the pan-European cultural context, the identity of its literature and language is methodologically significant and should be taken into account in the research process
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