Abstract
The article focuses on the responses to the death of R. M. Rilke in the context of his cult following that fl ourished during his lifetime, and on the pervading interest in Dostoyevsky in Germany of the 1920s. The latter infl uenced the perception of Rilke as a dangerous «Russophile», responsible, along with the others, for the ideological and moral «downfall» of the German culture. Special attention is paid to the fi rst publication of Rilke’s private letter to a Russian correspondent in the Rigasche Rundschau and its correlation with the book Idiotenführer durch die russische Lietratur (A Guide to the Idiots of the Russian Literature) by B. Eckstein-Diener.
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