Ippolit Rapgof’s creative reception of the novel “Keys to happiness” by Anastasia Verbitskaya

The article deals with the case of the creative reception, when “creative reader” intervened in the writer’s work and influenced the text. The study compared the storylines of two novels - “The Won” by I.P. Rapgof and “Keys to Happiness” by A. Verbitskaya that correlate as a continuation and source. The issue is set out in the light of the theory of the creative reception of the text. It is interesting to note that novels were published in 1909-1913 and stay inaccessible to many Russian readers and researchers nowadays.