The article explores various interpretations of the image of a lawyer in the works of art of late Imperial Russia. As examples of artistic interpretation when creating the image of a sworn attorney at the beginning of the XX century, the author chose the works of A. M. Gorky “Mother” and “The Life of Klim Samgin”. In the course of a comparative analysis of the texts of these works of art, as well as sources of personal origin of lawyers N. K. Muravyov and V. A.
