EVGENY ELACHICH - CHILDREN’s LITERATURE CRITIC
The article covers the main aspects of the creative activity of Evgeny Elachich (1880-1944). Evgeny Elachich was one of the most important critics of the Children’s Literature, who contributed to the theory of reading for children during the first decades of the 20<sup>th</sup>century, especially for the Russian émigré children literature, he was a Chief Editor of the Russian émigré monthly magazine «Chto i kak chitat’ detyam» («What to read and how to read to children» (1911-1917).