title: THE LITERARY TRAVEL IN O. MANDELSHTAM’S ESSAY “SEVAN”: THE ALLUSIONS TO EDGAR POE’S STORY “THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR”
abstract: The article is devoted to the essay &ldquo;Sevan&rdquo; by Mandelshtam from the cycle &ldquo;The Travel to Armenia&rdquo;. The prose by Mandelshtam has the special sequence of ideas: instead of sequential telling of the plot the author uses the &ldquo;montage&rdquo;, and the &ldquo;key&rdquo; to this montage could be both the causal association and the concrete text. This research is devoted to the comparison of two texts: the essay &ldquo;Sevan&rdquo; and the Edgar Poe&rsquo;s story &ldquo;The 
journal: RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism