Anton Chekhov in the Creative Mentality of Boris Pasternak

The theme of the work is “Chekhov's” in the works of B.L. Pasternak. The term “Chekhovian” in this work will mean not so much the direct appeal of B.L. Pasternak to quotations from Chekhov's works, how many are the totality of representations that go back to the artistic world of A.P. Chekhov, strong associations with his work. Interest in A.P. Chekhov and “Chekhovsky” are implemented at several stages: at the beginning of the creative path rejection is observed, then awareness of the value of the environment (we can judge this by letters from B. L. Pasternak), the beginning of Chekhov's influence (the poem “Winter is coming”, “Old Park” , the play “This Light”), its peak (the novel “Doctor Zhivago” and the poems included in it) and blurring (the play “The Blind Beauty”). If in the novel the range of affected Chekhov works is wide enough — from “Boys” to “Three Sisters” —and is intended to show the general Chekhov background of a collapsing life, then Yuriy Zhivago's Poems seem to resonate with only three Chekhov's stories “Holy Night”, "Student" and "Bishop", embodying the religious views of Chekhov, his "theology" and worldview. The non-canonical understanding of Christianity embodied by BL Pasternak in the monologues of his characters and poems from the novel, is largely based on the ideological concept of three Chekhov stories. Repeated confessions about closeness to Chekhov - both among Pasternak himself and Yury Andreyevich Zhivago as his “lyrical hero” - seem unexpected, but they are certainly very important for understanding the creative work of B.L. Pasternak. A separate aspect of this work is devoted to the “Chekhovian” drama of B.L. Pasternak - perhaps the least studied part of his heritage. In the late dramatic experience (“The Blind Beauty”), the Chekhovian tradition is not expressed directly and is connected with a number of others. Here we are not talking about direct quoting or referring to specific texts, but, rather, about the general principles of poetics close to B.L. Pasternak. The comparison allows us to come to the conclusion that Chekhov was present in the literary consciousness of B.L. Pasternak, both as an author, structuring the artistic world, and as a hero — a writer, a diagnostician, an intellectual, belonging to that “descended from the stage” “environment”, on whose behalf he speaks in his final novel B.L. Parsnip. Chekhov's beginning at Pasternak is manifested at various levels of organization and constitutes one of the significant implications of his work, mainly the novel “Doctor Zhivago” and the works adjacent to it.