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This article analyzes the advantages of modern digital platforms, such as FEB WEB and Pushkin Digital, compared to traditional printed scholarly editions. The digital format significantly expands research tools available to philologists and textologists, facilitating easier search capabilities and comparative textual analysis, thereby enhancing a more precise understanding of the original creative intentions of classical authors. Researchers will gain even greater opportunities from the forthcoming innovative digital platform “Russian and European Classical Texts in the 21st Century: Preparing Digital Academic Editions with Commentaries”. This new project will develop universal methods for presenting texts, variants, and commentaries on the works of 20 authors from various historical periods in an integrated multimedia and hypertext format. The digital environment provides unrestricted access to extensive materials for researchers, including primary texts, all textual variants, editions, manuscript facsimiles, scholarly commentary, supplementary materials, and their interconnections. Moreover, interdisciplinary advancements involving textual criticism, the psychology of creativity, and artificial intelligence will fundamentally evolve textual scholarship and assist in preserving poets’ literary heritage. Special attention in the article is given to textual and creative differences in the works of Sergey Esenin and Vladimir Mayakovsky, specifically examining their approaches to writing, editing, and organizing poetic cycles, as well as their attitudes towards previously published works.