Reflection of etnotypology by F.M. Dostoevsky in the works of I.A. Bunin

In I. A. Bunin's books, one can find the undoubted influence of Dostoevsky's ethnotypological discoveries related to designation of antinomical, dual manifestations of the Russian national character and consciousness. In the novel "Epitaph", Bunin denotes not only the main collisions of his subsequent creativity, but also the types of “new people” whose features correspond to the ones indicated in the “stryutsky” type by Dostoevsky. When exploring “souls of Russian people” in the stories “Village” and “Sukhodol”, Bunin deliberately focuses on the dark sides of the consciousness and character of the Russian people, as if foreseeing that they will become fatal in such a short historical perspective. The brightest embodiment of the “stryutsky” type are the images of Sery and Yushka, created by Bunin in the stories “Village” and “Sukhodol”. The vices designated by Dostoevsky in the type of “stryutsky” were embodied in the image of Sery: aversion to work, laziness, empty dreaminess, absurdity. In the “Diary” by Bunin, we find pictures of hopeless folk life, which clearly served as the factual basis of the stories “Village” and “Sukhodol”. The son of stryutsky Sery is Deniska, “revolutionary”, and Bunin predicted the tragic fate of Russia in this image; which, just like the heroine Young and Deniska, will be married to the revolution. In the image of the clever and cynical Yushka from “Sukhodol”, Bunin, like Dostoevsky, prophetically predicted the future renunciation of faith, mockery of the shrines, which will inevitably manifest itself in a society where the “stryutsky” gets the power, which the writer will show in “Cursed Days”.