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The article analyzes the reception of М. Prishvin's works in the literary criticism of the Russian exile. During the 1920s and 1930s, some changes occurred in assessments of the writer's artistic talent and his ideological position. None of Prishvin's significant new publications went unnoticed in emigration. His works were the focus of the leading emigrant periodicals ("Versty," "Poslednie Novosti," "Vozrozhdenie," "Volya Rossii," "Novoe Russkoe Slovo," etc.) and such literary contributors as А. Daman- skaya, А. Turintsev, Yu. Eichenwald, М. Slonim, V. Khodasevich, N. Ber- berova, G. Аdamovich, Yu. Мandelstam, А. Remizov, etc. The attitude towards the writer mainly stemmed from the views of literary critics, the ideological and aesthetic position of journals and newspapers, and the specifics of the "scattering nests" where they were published. But one of the crucial questions was about the degree of "Sovietness" of Prishvin and his work. Since 1921, we can find the desire to separate Prishvin from Soviet literature, but later, his work demonstrated a connection with the general Soviet literary trends. The critics recognized that Prishvin created his best works in the Soviet years but still referred him to the pre-revolutionary literary generation.