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Тhe article examines Mikhail Prishvin's literary life-creating strategies during the formation of the ideological control of the Soviet state over literature. Тhe novelty of the research consists in the synchronous consideration of creative behavioral strategies aimed at preserving the "existential core" of the personality in general, while different in nature: a game strategy for creating free writing in the novel "Crane Homeland" (1933), which became a harbinger of pre-postmodernism; ethnographic strategy - in making trips to the Far East and the socialist construction sites (the White Sea-Baltic Canal), the result of which is the publication of the novella "Ginseng" (1934) and the idea of the novel "Sovereign's Road." At the same time, in parallel with the secret reflections on time in the Diary, an open polemic is being conducted with M. Gorky about the idea and process of "forging" an asocial personality into a new Soviet man on the pages of the essay "Fathers and Children" (1937). In addition, he used the "internal emigration" strategy, i. e., he escaped from reality into children's literature and translation activities. Prishvin publishes an authorized translation of the book "The Grey Owl" (1939) by the Canadian writer of Indi- an origin, Vasha Kuonnezin, returning to his childhood dream of escaping to America. Understanding of modern historical processes, conducted in "serial" texts of different genres and behavioral strategies of Prishvin, makes it possible to classify him as a writer, on the one hand, of a dissident kind, on the other - as a reflective, but ready for an active dialogue with contemporaries, creators.