“In the Time of the Distemper and Debauchery…”: about one Reminiscence in Creativity by M.A. Sholokhov and S.S. Bekhteev

The article is devoted to works of two writers contemporaries who appeared during an era of revolutionary shocks of the beginning of the XX century on different sides of the ideological and political barricade which split the Russian people on “red” and “white” the poetic and ontologic basis of moral and ethical and religious and philosophical ideas of M.A. Sholokhov and S.S. Bekhteev of a blood and spiritual brotherhood as the embodiment of national unity comes to light. In the novel “Quiet Don” the artist in an implicit and explicit form expresses the idea of humanity in the words traced on eaves of the chapel put on a grave of the killed Red Army man. The epitaph represents a reminiscence from A.A. Golenishchev-Kutuzov's poem which also becomes a source of numerous hints in S. S. Bekhteev's lyrics, acting as the case text phenomenon accumulating in itself powerful axiological potential.