To the History of Pushkin Studies in the Crimea in the 1920<sup>s</sup> and 1930<sup>s</sup>
The article traces the history of two books about Pushkin's stay in the Crimea written by Boris Nedzelsky and Sergei Kotsyubinsky and published in 1929 and 1937 in Simferopol. Each of the books has different approach to the presentation of material. Moreover, the methodological preferences of the authors are largely due to the historical context of the time when both books were written. Nedzelsky’s work is written in accordance with the biographical method. The author relies only on available factual information and critically assesses the literature on Pushkin's stay in the Crimea, destroying the legends that have sprung up around him. However, Nedzelsky himself does not hold back and adds a number of his own versions to the collection of possible, but not verifiable facts. Kotsyubinsky’s book is written from the perspective of a sociological approach. Kotsyubinsky takes an interest in questions of political biography and of the circumstances that caused Pushkin's southern exile, the tsar's power attitude toward the poet, the place of the Crimean journey in Pushkin's ideological and creative evolution. By revealing the historical significance of Pushkin, Kotsyubinsky seeks to show his place in the present and to reveal the role and importance of his work in the construction of socialist culture. The aesthetic nature of Pushkin's poetic texts was not very significant for both researchers, and they were looking for life or social reality behind them.