“Farewell, unwashed Russia...”. On the question of authorship of M. Lermontov and about the features argument refuting authorship

The article is a replica of a dispute about the authorship of the poem “Farewell, unwashed Russia”, attributed to M. Lermontov. The author finds it possible and necessary to argue with anti-Lermontov versions, which are presented in the articles A. Kutyreva, G. Klechenov, S. Sokurov, P. Krasnov, and in an interview with V. Mikhailov, since these versions are based on ideological assumptions, do not address specific poetics Lermontov and artistic images of the poem. The author aims to prove that attempts to instill a work of art in the mainstream of the dominant ideology distorts the meaning of the work and negate its artistic merits. The author agrees with the documentary and bibliographical reasoning refuting authorship M. Lermontov presented in the article M. Elzon’s, and comes to the conclusion that the question of authorship of Lermontov should recognize the public due to lack of an autograph and poems list, visibility on its possible spread of the lists, as well as by virtue of the publication, much chronologically delayed by a poem of creation time, but not because of his poetic mind and artistic discrepancies system M. Lermontov.