Acknowledgments:
The research was carried out at IWL RAS with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 23-28-01158 “Maxim Gorky and the Grassroots Literary Movement” (https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-01158/).
Abstract:
The article analyzes the personal and literary relationships of M. Gorky and A. V. Yarovitsky. Having met in 1899, they became work colleagues at the Nizhegorodsky Listok newspaper and friends. The undertaken detailed study of documentary sources testifies to the relationship between the teacher (writer) and the student (aspiring author). An appeal to the creative connections of writers who worked in the period from 1899 to 1903 in Nizhny Novgorod, allows the author of the article to trace the stages of their personal and creative dialogue. The author of the article turns to indirect correspondence: letters from Gorky about Yarovitsky and Yarovitsky to his relatives about Gorky. The identified difference in the creative direction they chose indicates mutual enrichment of material for artistic works. The results of the article allow us to study in more detail the literary process of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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