About the author:
Natalia V. Kornienko, DSc in Philology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of Research, Head of the Department of Modern Russian Literature and Literature of the Russian Abroad, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia
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Abstract:
The article deals with a wide range of theoretical, historical literary, and source criticism issues related to the theme of Sholokhov’s literary contemporaries; also, the present work provides new archival materials and analyses literary portraits of the writer’s contemporaries as rendered in the Sholokhovian Encyclopedia.