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Igor A. Ebanoidze, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia..
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8382-5873
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Abstract:
The article is dedicated to the contacts of the German writer Herman Kasack with the Soviet Union. The first contact with the USSR took place in an emergency situation. In April 1945 his house in Potsdam was turned into a headquarters of the advanced guard of the Red Army. Kasack’s visit to Moscow (1959), on the contrary, followed the traditional Soviet rite of hospitality. These two episodes of the German writer’s Soviet contacts were described in detail in Kasack’s non-fictional texts and are a unique chronicle of the mid-twentieth century.