Pushkin’s influence on Pushkin (Silvio and Salieri. Geniuses and villains)

This article attempts to categorise the markers stating the similarity of the characters by Alexander Pushkin – Silvio and Salieri. Similar examples from the texts are compared situationally, chronologically and structurally. The story “Shot” and the little tragedy “Mozart and Salieri” were written by Pushkin during the famous period of the “Boldin autumn” (1830). Accordingly, the analysed material allows us to consider how the texts of the same author interact during the creative process revealing the nature of intertextuality.