Life-creation models in the pre-revolutionary works by an Udmurt writer Kedra Mitrey

The paper describes life-creation models of an Udmurt writer Kedra Mitrey as reflected in the texts created by him between 1907 and 1917. Most of these works are preserved as manuscripts, including Kedra Mitrey's autobiography (1911). So far, it has been published only fragmentarily as a novel under the title A Child of the Sick Century. For the first time, the archival corpus of Kedra Mitrey's texts is interpreted by us in the life creation aspect. The writer's manuscripts and his life practices of the pre-revolutionary years are interpreted as a single text with a definite conception, inscribed into the socio-cultural and literary context of the era. The main idea of the article is that there is evidence for the relationship between the life behavior and the artistic world of the writer, which manifested itself in a steady set of themes and motifs of his works. Each text of Kedra Mitrey has its own concept, corresponding to an individual “set” of life-creation models, including a “member of the intelligentsia”, a “romantic maximalist”, a “writer from the people” and others.