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This article’s topic is the analysis of the theme of sleep and ways of his linguistic representation in Nadezhda Teffi’s poetry. The author distinguishes various updates of the selected motif, divided them according to their meaning and thematic scope and pointed out their importance in the poetic achievements of the Russian emigrant. The subject of the analysis is the context of direct nominations of the lexeme, its derivates, semantic words and antonyms, appearing in the debut volume of poems Seven Fires (1910) and in Poetry Poems published in Exile: Passiflora Shamram. Songs of the East (1923). The research concept adopted by the author remains in line with the communication style of the text, whose tasks cover various aspects of the analysis of the literary text perceived as a form of communication reflecting both the stylistic standard and the individual style of the author.