A. N. YAKHONTOV AND THE IDEA OF NATIONAL POET (ON THE MATERIALS OF A. N. YAKHONTOVA-VYSOTSKAYA`S LETTERS TO L. A. TVOROGOV)
The article explores the idea of national character with reference to a Pskov poet A. N. Yakhontov (1820-1870) in the interpretation of his granddaughter, A. N. Yakhontova-Vysotskaya. The study takes into account the sociocultural context of the Soviet era and the epistolary of the XX century as a whole, from the standpoint of which the image of national poet is structured in the correspondence with A. N. Yakhontova-Vysotskaya and L. A. Tvorogov's correspondence.