Boris Eikhenbaum and Leo Tolstoy: creative incentives and logic of historical behaviour

This research work considers the reasons of addressing of an outstanding literature theorist to the art of the great writer. B.M. Eikhenbaum has the variety of fundamental articles where the scientist studies Tolstoy's creative evaluation. The researcher comes to conclusion that the writer, during all his life, went by the ideas of historical responsibility, civil ardour, which made him work tirelessly, realising his crucial educational mission. The author of the article infers that the prominent scientist of the 20th century had the identical complex of anxieties (due to the difference in epochs).