EMIGRANT LITERARY CRITICISM ON S.A. YESSENIN'S POEM "PUGACHEV"
S.A. Yessenin's dramatic poem “Pugachev” created in 1921 did not receive unanimous recognition of the poet's contemporaries. In his poem “Pugachev”, S.A. Yessenin created a new model of the artistic perception of the reality, which combined Russian and foreign cultural traditions, folk motives, historical events, imaginative linguistic innovations. By transforming traditional genres, plots, motives, and images, the poet managed to balance modernity and tradition in an innovative poetic form. Nowadays there are over 100 contradicting literary evaluations of the poem. It has been discussed whether the poem has a historical or a revolutionary character. It has been debated whether S.A. Yessenin's literary heritage and the poem “Pugachev” in particular follow the traditions of imaginism. Critics have analyzed the genre to which the poem belongs. They have discussed traditions and innovations reflected in the poem. The present article is aimed at investigating literary criticism by Russian emigrants.