THE SIBERIAN WRITER G.D. GREBENSHCHIKOV AND THE YALTA LITERARY SOCIETY NAMED AFTER A.P. CHEKHOV

Abstract

The article describes the first years of the Yalta Literary Society named after A.P. Chekhov. The study, written on materials from Crimean newspapers of the early 20s of the XX century, documents from Moscow and Crimean, concerns little-known pages of the history of Russian literature in Yalta: the creative collaboration of scientists, writers, artists and theatrical figures during the Civil war; the organizational activities of the doctor and publicist S.Ya. Elpatyevsky as chairman of the literary society. Much attention is paid to the origins of the literary process in Yalta, the formation of creative unions in the South of Russia in the late XIX–early XX century, the publicist and the works of art of the leaders and ordinary members of the Yalta Literary Society named after A.P. Chekhov. Special attention is paid to the Crimean period of the life and work of the writer G.D. Grebenshchikov and his role in the literary process of Crimea.