V. F. ODOEVSKII IN POLEMICS OF MOSCOW OBSERVER WITH TRADE DIRECTION IN LITERATURE
The author considers the polemics of the journal Moscow Observer with trade direction in literature. The authors of this periodical, S. P. Shevyrev, V. P. Androsov, V. I. Dal' and others, often satirically and critically opposed cheap literature. The works by V. F. Odoevskii made original contribution to this polemics, on their pages the writer presented the philosophical interpretation of workmanship as such not only revealing it but painting the images of true artists and votaries of fatherland.