title: PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVES OF CREATIVITY OF A.S. PUSHKIN AND A.P. CHEKHOV IN THE PERIOD OF EPIDEMICS
abstract: This article traces the mutual penetration of the psychological motives of the epidemic, illness - healing, death - immortality, despondency and selflessness on the example of the works and letters of world-famous writers, representatives of the "golden" age of Russian literature - Pushkin and Chekhov. It is shown how the artistic and psychological assessment of the epidemic and diseases differs in the works of Pushkin and Chekhov. Alexander Sergeevich did not completely abandon the ancient Gree
journal: Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Social Humanitarian Medicobiological Sciences