Each nation, in its speech and artistic creativity, strives to refer to the lexical units inherent in its national culture. In particular, in a work of art, the creator uses historical figures, historically significant places, historical events, mythological and textured images in order to reveal a certain content of the work. From this point of view, onomastic units in works of art manifest themselves in different states. They participate together with various associations in a literary text in accordance with the writer's artistic intention. Precedent names, which are one of such onomastic units, are studied in an interdisciplinary connection.