The article presents the analysis of the metonymic model of space in the stories by A. Averchenko. The author reveals ways and means of representation of cultural objects in the metonymic transfer “old Russia - manor, new Russia - flat”, as well as patterns of reflection of cultural semantic categories of value in in the semantics of language units. Using the method of comparison the author shows that the basis of the formation of the artistic picture of the world of the writer is the contrast concluded in the opposition of the old and the new Russia. The given linguistic facts are examined through the prism of the sociocultural opposition “ours - others”.