Churaevka and Yasnaya polyana: the reception of the Tolstoy's model in G. D. Grebenshchikov's life arrangement

The article deals with the key aspect of the life arrangement of the Siberian writer G.D. Grebenshchikov, who lived in the USA since 1924. For the first time the article analyzes the mechanisms and pragmatics of the organization of Churaevka literary life, the central of which was Tolstoy' s Yasnaya Polyana. The life text of L.N. Tolstoy became the most important life arrangement model for Grebenshchikov, whereby it is possible to speak not only about the constant orientation of Grebenshchikov' s main novel The Churaevs toWar and Peace, the rhetorical identity of the emigrant with the classic and the Tolstoy' s topography of Churaevka, but also about Grebenshchikov' s own identification with Tolstoy.