Georgy Vekshin

The article attempts to give a functional description of the five most significant in-dividual nonstandard punctuation marks used in the manuscripts of Pushkin’s po-ems. A typology of basic and particular functions of punctuation is presented. The proposed description allows us to speak about the systemic nature of Pushkin’s noncanonical punctuation, in particular, about the patterns of distribution of punctua-tion marks. The changeable picture of punctuation in text makes it possible to form a more complete idea of the manuscript as an exponent of the creative process and provide a more comprehensive understanding of the rhythmic-syntactic composition and semantics of the text, both in its development and in the conditional final version.