STUDY OF THE WRITER KARKEI NERBYSHEV’S PERSONALITY BASED ON THE MATERIALS FROM THE MANUSCRIPT FUND OF KHAKASS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND HISTORY

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the famous Khakass writer Karkei Trofimovich Nerbyshev’s personality on the materials from the Manuscript Fund of Khakass Research Institute for Language, Literature and History. As a research task, K. Nerbyshev’s diaries and letters of his contemporaries addressed to him are described and analyzed for the first time. It is found that the use of the diary in the aspect of the study of the writer’s personality helps to obtain new data on the inner and outer life of K. Nerbyshev. The diary entries reflect thoughts, moral and ethical ideals, feelings of the author, his value judgments about literature, creativity, writers. Based on the analysis of private letters from Khakass and foreign writers, the article substantiates the idea that through written communication topical literary and aesthetic topics, issues of translations and publications are raised and discussed; the respectful and warm attitude of the authors of letters to K. Nerbyshev is expressed. The presented material allows to conclude that K. Nerbyshev’s diary and letters of his contemporaries are an important source of information in the study of the inner world and creative appearance of the writer.