War as a space of "antigene" and "anti-culture" (military correspondence E. N. Chirikova from the fronts of the Balkan and First world wars)
The paper first provides an analysis of military correspondence E. N. Chirikova (1864-1932), created for Newspapers, "Kievskaya Mysl" and "Russkoye Slovo", which clearly shows a consistently pacifist stance of the writer, as he mastered the Tolstoy tradition in the depiction of war and how familiarity with the real events served as the basis for the creation of works of art on military themes. The texts of the correspondence expand our understanding of trends in Russian journalism associated with multidirectional lighting of the First world war and the fact that it was preceded by.