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Based on the intertextual intersections of Margarita Sabashnikova’s memoirs The Green Snake and Goethe’s Fairy Tale, the article examines some aspects of her autobiographical myth. The research reveals the significance of Goethe’s text for Sabashnikova in understanding the meaning and architectonics of her own life. The article presents the connection between the concept of Rudolf Steiner, who considered The Fairy Tale one of the most important texts of his life, and the anthroposophical context he created through the prism of which Sabashnikova herself considered the meaning of her life. The article concludes that Sabashnikova’s interpretation is a deviation from Steiner’s interpretation of The Fairy Tale. This process occurs due to the transfer of the interpretation of Goethe’s text from the sphere of esotericism to the sphere of historiosophy. At the same time, Sabashnikova remains fundamentally faithful to Steiner’s discourse regarding the change of cultural eras, which served as a support for her understanding of her path and the fate of Russia.

Keywords: M.V. Sabashnikova, memoirs, Green Snake, I.V. Goethe, R. Steiner, anthroposophy.