Abstract
Summary This article looks at Tatyana Tolstaya's short story Poėt i muza (1986). Tolstaya conceptualizes her story as a commentary to Pushkin's poem Ja pamjatnik sebe vozdvig nerukotvornyj (1836) and thus presents her own conception of the immortality of the poet. As my contribution argues, Poėt i muza also refers to Anton Chekhov's story Poprygun'ja (1892). Both references, those to Pushkin and those to Chekhov, shed light on a topic of Tolstaya's story that has been little researched so far: this is the clash of the world of arts (i. e., poetry) with the world of sciences (medicine). In Chekhov's as well as in Tolstaya's work this conflict erupts in a marriage, with an artist and a doctor being the respective participants.
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