Scientific Journal of KubSAU

What connection is more stable: Balmont and Nietzsche or Balmont and Dostoevsky? Finding some similarities of childhood motives in the works of Balmont and Dostoevsky, the author of the article shows that Balmont glorifies the childhood of the child of God, perceiving him as " the first word ", etymon of human life and personality, deprived of any subjective description appearing in the primordial, - paradisial - content and spontaneity. In this "guarding genius" of Dostoevsky became a support for a prominent poet whose faith gave amazingly generous harvest in 20-s, when reference to Dostoevsky became permanent