Abstract
The article considers the complex of prose works preserved in the personal archive of Platonov (RNL), which were written when the future academician was studying in the senior classes of the gymnasium. The focus is on the so-called “Louisin cycle”, created by Platonov in 1873–1875. The works of this cycle (issues of the self-made newspaper “Louisino Vestnik”, two essays “Conversations about Luisino” and a miniature story “On the Prairie”) are connected with Platonov’s summer stay at the dacha in Luisino village near St. Petersburg. The article concludes that the “Louisin myth” created by teenagers was a variant of the “myth in the style of Rousseau” about the life of a natural person who is in harmony with nature.
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