The following article is devoted an investigation a classic Russian literature and precedent (or paradox) texts of Russian culture. In our opinion, this research reveals mechanism of semantic interoperability, that fundamentally different from the existing in fiction and popular literature. Plot about the dead body in the Russian masterpieces has hypersemantic meanings. Firstly, article presents a dynamic a «mortal code» of Russian literature (Nikolay Gogol, Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin, Ivan Goncharov, Anton Chekhov). Secondary, it’s devoted an oxymoronic semantic in the individual-narration models – and in particular in the stories of Leo Tolstoy. And, lastly, it’s compared with modernistic experiment as «Zojka apartment» of Mikhail Bulgakov.