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The article focuses on the formal and content role of Pushkin’s intertext in Yu. N. Tynyanov’s novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar. Diff er ent ways of introducing quotes, references, allusions to A. S. Pushkin’s works are revealed. Such features of quoting as non-attributiveness, inexactness, pre-text reduction to single word images are elicited in the process of analysis. In the opinion of the author of the paper, this indicates a play-based dialogue with the reader who should unravel Pushkin’s texts independently and discern the “mistakes” of reproduc tion.

The article analyzes how an old believer Bishop Mikhail (Semenov), one of the prominent opinion journalists of the 20th century, drew upon S. Ya. Nadson’s poetry. Bishop Mikhail used poem excerpts as quotes, which allowed him to express his own attitude to other literary works, to argue, to highlight his own opinion. The use of Nadson’s allegory of Love has a specific nature of its own. An original means of an individual reception of other authors has been brought to light.