The article examines the features of the poetics of the finale in the G.R. Derzhavin’s fables. Attention is focused on the desire to merge the text with moralization, or on cases of the disappearance of morality in the process of author’s work on the texts. If the moral is preserved and highlighted in the text, it can both sum up the allegory without transferring the plot to another plane, and serve as a “bridge” from the story about the life of animals to the situation in the human world. Examples of transitions from plot to morality that are not at all on the surface are also given, and in this case the author comments on this transition, trying to clarify its meaning to the reader as much as possible.
G.R. Derzhavin; fables; poetics; morality; final