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Ideology reasons were also similar: unlike tragic perception of the world of decadence, many writers aspired to find a world equal to heroic and positive origin of man. Perhaps, premonition of the world end prompted them to return to eternal origins of human being, to primordial origin which could only be pre served in the North. In works by London, Prishvin, Sluchevsky the North is independently de picted in sublime and eternal images of space and time. They endow nature with aesthetics and symbolic sense, reproduce cycles of being, characterize the way of people’s life in the North and national culture features of northern peoples, render philosophical understanding of life and death. In all the works, a journey across the North is compared to antique “Odyssey” because human aspiration to discover new worlds is unstoppable. Both Jack London and Mikhail Prishvin consider veracity and accuracy principally important in rendering of natural world. Northern stories of London have been published from 1900 till 1912, and travel to Alaska has taken place in 1896-97. They are written in a frank and factual way and notwithstanding of de tails, became the model of the Northern world. On the one hand, the writer re produced precisely the geography of Alaska and Yukon, with its routes, settle ments, the rivers and the lakes, and on the other hand, he represented the North as the universal world which had a lot in common with other Nordic countries. There were boundless snow spaces, “the gloom of black December nights”, “foul wind”, “the sun on gold larches and aspens”, “breezy cold air” [London, 1986, 1992]. Michael Prishvin (1873-1954) - the remarkable Russian writer - has vis ited the Kola North, or so-called Russian Lapland, twice, in 1907 and in 1933. He passed through the Kola Peninsula, lived in the Lappish settlement in the tundra, fished with the Pomors. The North fascinated him, and in 1908 he pub lished the book of stories and northern impressions “Following the Magic Kolo- bok”. The Kolobok - is an artful character of a Russian fairy tale, the round roll, which avoids and escapes from people and animals into the wood. This image isn’t casual for the author, who is led by some fantastic force towards mysteri ous adventures. As well as Jack London does, the writer feels uniqueness, mysteriousness of the Northern Nature: “The bright transparency and silence”, “transparent easy weightless water, cold as ice”, “day not real, but crystal”, “mysterious sunny night”, “the sun sparkling too brightly, but cold and sharply” [Prishvin, 1984, c. 148, 151, 161, 176, 215, 218-219]. The writer marks clearness of lines, fresh ness of paints, cold - almost cosmic - light of the northern world. Lyrical hero of Prishvin, as well as the hero of Sluchevsky, observes changes of natural forms, when vast spaces of rocks reminds the silent hardened ocean, and ocean looks like solid glass. And this image of primordially pure and severe nature later appears in po ems by Vladimir Semenov, Vladimir Smirnov, Victor Timofeev, in maritime 82