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The book offered to the reader is generalizing in its nature, giving an analytical overview of research on the literary estate and dacha undertaken within the framework of the RSF project No. 22-18-00051 “Estate and Dacha in Russian Literature of the 20^th – 21^st Centuries: The Fate of the National Ideal”. On its pages are represented the results of theoretical and methodological, interdisciplinary and comparative researches in the announced areas. Along with this there is shown the specificity of estate-dacha topics and mythology in Russian and world literature of the 20^th century. In this study are identified new promising topics: the Russian estate and Asia, the estate as Kitezh, the estate and the war, the estate and the forest, the collective estate, etc. At the same time, the publication includes specific searches on this theme, carried out by the author of the monograph in the recent years. Special attention is paid to theoretical and methodological approaches (thesaurus, contextual, mythopoeic) and the creation of a categorical apparatus relevant to the literary material of the 20^th–21^st centuries (the concepts of estate superrtext, crypto- estate mythology, estate habitus, estateness, dacha topos, dacha myth, etc.). New studies of the “estate and dacha text” by F.M. Dostoevsky (novels “Crime and Punishment”, “The Adolescent”, the short story “The Eternal Husband”), a number of writers of the Silver Age (Z.N. Gippius, G.I. Chulkov, N.S. Gumilev, early A.N. Tolstoy) and the Soviet era (M.M. Prishvin, A.P. Gaidar, B.L. Pasternak) have been conducted. Prior value is given to the section dedicated to the estate and dacha in the works of modern writers — Yu.V. Mamleev, A.P. Potemkin, G.Sh. Yakhina, A.I. Slapovsky, M.L. Stepnova. The perspectivity of the estate life in Russia as a Euro-Asian country are emphasized, new horizons of the Russian literary estate have been opened in this research. The publication is addressed to literary critics, cultural scientists, historians working in a broad humanitarian paradigm, students and teachers, as well as all interested readers.

Keywords: literary estate, literary dacha, thesaurus, methodology, “estate text” by F.M. Dostoevsky, literature of 20^th century, modern Russian literature