ON THE HISTORY OF CREATION OF MOON DREAMS, HANDWRITTEN QUIRE BY A.N. TOLSTOY

This article deals with history of creation of one of handwritten quires by A.N. Tolstoy, “Moon Dreams” containing poems, prosaic miniatures and prose poetry written during 1906-1907. The notebook includes draft autographs of poems of the first poetry collection “Lirika” (1907), the main message of which is love for Sophia Dymshits, and also poetic sketching and drafts to A.N. Tolstoy's early stories and short novels (“A Week in Turenevo” (“Неделя в Туреневе”); “In the woods”(“В лесу”), “Kharitonov's Gold” (“Харитоновское золото”)).