Reception of Dostoevsky's creativity in the works by Aleksandr Kuprin

The article analyzes the reception of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s creativity in the fiction, social and political essays by Aleksandr Kuprin. The first part of the article focuses on such types of reception as communicative dialogue, interpretation, allusion. Communicative dialogue becomes apparent at the character level (the image of a dreamer) and the motive level (the motive of madness). We have revealed the similarities and differences of these images and motives in the prose by Dostoevsky and Kuprin. Another aspect of reception is interpretation of certain genre structures (Christmas story), as well as plots and images. Akeksandr Kuprin refers to the figurative system of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novels “The Brothers Karamazov” and “Demons”, as well as to their ideological component. So, the second part of the article demonstrates that in the social and political essays of the emigrant period Kuprin acts as a commentator, partly as an integrator of the prophecies of someone who “feeled the ideological foundations and nature of the coming Russian revolution, and perhaps worldwide one” (N. A Berdyaev).