Through the appeal to the fate and literary works of F.I. Chudakov (1888–1918), one of the brightest representatives of the literature of the Silver Age, poet, prose writer, publicist, published in the periodicals of the Amur region in 1908–1918, the authors try to solve two interrelated tasks. The first is to study the Amur periodical press of the first post-revolutionary years in order to identify and explain the reaction of contemporaries to Chudakov's suicide, which makes it possible to highlight public opinion, the degree of its compliance with traditional ethical ideas, including religious ones. The second is to identify the evolution of views embodied in Chudakov's literary work, which led him to a fatal decision. Both of these tasks are aimed at understanding the worldview, including those related to the religious sphere, transformations that took place in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary times – both within the boundaries of the consciousness of an individual creative person, and in one of the provincial segments of Russian educated society.

Keywords: literature of the Silver Age, periodicals of the Amur region, Fyodor Chudakov, lyrics, Christian worldview, religious images and motives, motive of sacrifice

DOI: 10.22250/20728662_2022_1_133

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	Alexander V. Urmanov – DSc (Philology), Professor, Head of the Department of the Russian Language and Literature; Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University;104 Lenin Street, Blagoveshchensk, 675000, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Liu Ying – Postgraduate student of the Department of the Russian Language and Literature; Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University; 104 Lenin Street, Blagoveshchensk, 675000, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.