ON ARTISTIC CONTINUITY AND CREATIVE CONTROVERSY: PUSHKIN'S “FOOTPRINT” IN SALAVAT, THE PLAY BY MUSTAY KARIM

The article deals with hidden and explicit references to the works of A.S. Pushkin, which are found in in Salavat, the play by Mustay Karim - the central part of his dramatic trilogy about "the emancipation of the person". "The Captain's Daughter" and "Boris Godunov" as a crucial part of the intertext of the play of the Bashkir writer allow to present not only cultural and historical continuity of his drama towards the Russian classics, but also a polemical perception of Pushkin's conception of history.