There is illustrated the functional resemblance of the landscape in “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri and “Crime and Punishment” by F.M. Dostoevsky. There is traced the idea of a devilish town in the implication of the Russian novel through frequent repetition of the morpheme “non-” in the words of different parts of speech.

On the basis of the works by V. Garshin Artists, Z. Gippius Goddess, I. Repin The Far and the Close there is analyzed the infrequent literary method. There is found out that the introduction of a picturesque landscape into a literary work lets the author say a word about what is true art, compare one and the same landscape image in time, keep in the memoirs and fiction literature the memory about the great pictorial works and their masters.