Reception of F.M. Dostoevsky’s Works in Tatar Literature and Literary Criticism

The article examines the appeal of Tatar writers to the work of F.M. Dostoevsky, the dialogue with the writer in their works. It also analyzes the translation of the novel Crime and Punishment into the Tatar language. The study of dialogical relations of Tatar writers with the work of F.M. Dostoevsky by modern Kazan literary critics helps to identify the complex and multidimensional history of interaction of Tatar writers of the twentieth century with Russian classics. Having studied the scientific works of V.R. Amineva, L.K. Bayramova, D.R. Moskaleva, K.S. Minnibaev, E.G. Nigmatullina, Yu.G. Nigmatullina, M.M. Khabutdinova, Z.Z. Shagiakhmetov, as well as the translation of the novel Crime and Punishment by R. Dautov, it was concluded that in the works of G. Iskhaki, F. Amirkhan, G. Ibragimov, A. Gilyazov, an appeal to the artistic and philosophical heritage of F.M. Dostoevsky was manifested in the creative and original understanding of the moral and philosophical ideas and deep psychologism of the Russian classic, the desire to reveal the phenomena of modern Tatar reality more fully through the prism of his ideas.