«AKHSHARUMOV VARIATIONS» IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: HISTORY OF THE WAR OF 1812

The article considers «implicit communication», combining philosophical plot
of «War and Peace» Tolstoy to the popular historical writing Akhsharumov. «The historical description of the war of 1812», published in several editions, presupposed an original concept, based on a fatalistic description of the historical events that, presumably, would be reflected in the final conception of Tolstoy's novel. Critic and writer Nikolai Akhsharumov – in his critical analysis of Tolstoy’s novel emerges as a writer of historical opponent of the concept. Criticizing Tolstoy Akhsharumov at the same time denies the thesis of his father, presented critic positivist persuasion, elects option anthropocentric view of the world as the only possible.