Модальные средства экспликации „мысли семейной” в романе Льва Толстого Анна Каренина

Text function of multi-leveled language means expressing the modal meaning of possibility as one of the explicators of the author’s modality in Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina is considered in the article.The authors determine functional specificity of the given means in revealing the valuable aspects of the heroes of the novel Anna Karenina, ruining the main heroine and influencing severely the people close to her: children, husband and Vronsky. The article traces the role of the modal means in showing the dynamics of formation and spiritual negative transformation of vital views of the heroine contrasting to the „family ideas” of the author of the novel and accepted by his readers.