Readers are offered a fundamental comprehensive study, first undertaken in the new Russia. Intercultural communication of the two leading European countries appears in aspects of modern comparative studies as an important part of the history of Russian studies and German studies of the late XIX and first half of the XX centuries. The tragic years of political and military confrontation between the two powers did not cancel, paradoxically, attention, careful study and mutual influence on each other. The collective study was prepared by leading scientists of the Institute of World Literature named after A.M. Gorky RAS together with their colleagues from various universities of the Russia n Federation. The unity of the plan of the authors of scientific articles is enshrined in a three-part composition of labor: “Russia through the eyes of German writers” (axiologically colored characteristics of Russia among German writers), «“Russian" Germany — "German” Russia: literary contacts» (relations
between Russian and German cultural figures) and “Artistic practice: convergence, intersections, parallels” (phenomena of literary interaction, during which a common Russian-German cultural text arises). The book reveals to the reader new names in the dialogue of two cultures and
literatures, and also introduces the history and current state of German studies, the leading vector of which is Russian-German and German-Russian humanitarian ties.
For citation: Tsvetkov Yu.L. Russia and Germany: literary displays. Book review: Russia — Germany: literary meetings (1880—1945), ed. by T.V. Kudryavtseva, Moscow, 2017, 768 p., Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2025, iss. 1, pp. 183—187.