“FRENCH LETTERS” BY ISMAIL GASPRYNSKIY AS TRAVEL SKETCHES

The author of the article, considering poly-genre basis of the “French Letters” by Crimean Tatareducator, public figure and writer Ismail Gasprynskiy, is focused on the analysis of genologic featuresof travel sketches in a text. A hero of the “French Letters”, Molla Abbas, is a protagonist of the author andrepresents the author’s own experience in his impressions from western life. In order to keep the reader’sinterest at a high level, the author uses the principles of belle-lettres in descriptive material, and oftenuses such artistic technique as defamiliarization. The “French Letters” is a first book of travel sketches,in which the Turk Muslim’s view to a Christian-atheist Europe, especially France, is presented. A constantdesire to compare the living conditions of the “native” East and civilized West as a need to separateamong “alien” those things, which I. Gasprynskiy considers as absolutely necessary ones to introducein motherland, is pointed out. First of all, it is an extensive system of education and researches, powerfulindustrial and financial development, social protection, competitive judicial system, wide participationof women in public life etc. In turn, the rationalistic West is opposed to the high moral values of Islamand the justice of the relationship between Muslims. Molla Abbas (and therefore I. Gasprynskiy) comesto the conclusion that the most promising way of development of Turk peoples and whole