This article examines the motif of «silence» in the art world of Anatoly Mittov. The analysis of individual miniatures gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the peculiarities of the national culture of the Chuvash people, to better understand the worldview of the Chuvash ethnos. The work is of an interdisciplinary nature, it is written at the junction of literary criticism, linguoculturology, philosophy, and art history. The research is aimed at solving some basic tasks. It is devoted to the understanding of the motif of silence in the work of Anatoly Mittov as a significant missing. Prose miniatures representing this motif, is understood as a space that represents the sacred, and considered in the plane of philosophy and the traditional worldview of the Chuvash. The semantic fullness of the motif of “silence” is revealed. The author concludes that, as a painter, the schedule, the author of numerous prose miniatures, the Creator of his own innovative style, based on deep national traditions, learning their essence, the Creator discovered his ability to see eternal, everlasting. His creations are full of mystery, symbolic, meaningful. The problem of the artist's connection with macro-cosmos through the motive of silence is very complicated, for this reason, some ideas, put forward by us, can be ambiguous, controversial, requiring further interpretation.