L.N.TOLSTOY IN G.ISKHAKI’S CRITICAL WORKS OF HIS EMIGRATION PERIOD: THE NATIONAL IDENTITY ISSUE
This article studies the Tatar writer, critic, and public figure G.Iskhaki’s opinion on personality and oeuvre of L.Tolstoy and compares it with his pre-revolutionary evaluation of the Russian writer. It establishes the correlation between aesthetic and extra-aesthetic evaluation criteria and defines the role of journalistic discourse in critical judgments. The critical judgments of G.Iskhaki about L.Tolstoy and other Russian writers (Pushkin, Dostoyevsky) are considered to be a form of national identity manifestation.