The study of the categories of space and time in a literary text is an urgent issue of modern literary criticism. In this article, the author explores these aesthetic categories, based on theories Bakhtin, Lotman, Toporov and other scholars researching this issue. The author believes that the artistic space depicted in the text cannot be equal to the real space, even if the literary text is a historical work. This point of view is based on the idea that the text is a work of art, an aesthetic object that is modified and refracted not only due to the desire of the author, but also by its recipients - readers and viewers. This article is a reflection on the organization of the artistic space in the historical drama by A.N. Ostrovsky -Kozma Zakhar'yich Minin-Sukhoruk? as a form of a Volga play. The author believes that the artistic space of the play is determined not only by historical events that formed the basis of the plot, but also due to the location of the main topos of the play (Nizhny Novgorod) on the Volga River. The author considers the image of the Volga as the key topos of the play revealing the symbolic meaning of the realities of everyday and artistic space. The article proves that the details of space determine the composition of the play and the development of the plot. The article also reflects the features of the organization of the artistic space in the first and the second editions of the play, which suggests that not only the plot of the play determines its chronotope, but also the organization of the play determines the plot line.
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