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The example of the story The Bishop, written already at a mature age, is used to examine the influence of A. P. Chekhov’s religious education on his oeuvre. What he saw and heard in his childhood and youth transformed over the years and found expression in the words and actions of Chekhov’s characters. Being a church singer in Taganrog, Chekhov saw not only the liturgical life of the clergy, but also their everyday life, which is usually hidden from parishioners and strangers.

The subject of research in the article is the image of the Dry Valley in Bunin’s short novel and its possible sources. The author believes that the main precedent texts for Bunin’s short novel and the concept of national life and national character embodied in it, are the novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov (as the researchers have already noted) and The Silver Dove by Andrey Bely. Bunin both argues with the writers and develops their ideas about the essence of the Russian character and the Russian life.

The article compares two novels: The Conquest of Plassans by Emile Zola and The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub. The parallels (in the problem range, systems of images, poetics of the plot, in the psychological picture of the characters’ images) give us grounds to consider the novel by Zola to be one of the sources of plot collisions and poetics for The Petty Demon.