Poet and time: sociocultural context in O. Mandelstam’s and M. Tsvetaeva’s works of the 1920s

The article studies the mutual influence and interdependence of creative process and socio-cultural situation on the example of search for new creative ways in the unromantic era, appeal of the poets to certain forms and genres. 1920s was such a cultural (and literary) era, which influenced the poets, forced them to look for other ways of expressing themselves: either write prose like Osip Mandelstam, or turn to a specific genre (epitaph in Marina Tsvetaeva's case). The fundamental changes in sociocultural sphere, in aesthetic literary views of the writers are fully embodied in their prosaic texts, in which the lyric “I” was to some extent objectified, “got an epic look”, reflecting by that the status of a person in complete dependence on social reality. The general worldview affected the forms of constructing personal consciousness.