Evaluation of A.E. Kulakovsky’s writing during the nascent period of yakutsk literary criticism

Abstract

The research presents studying the issue of evaluating the criticism of A.E. Kulakovsky (1877-1926), the Yakut literature founder, at the stage of Yakut literature formation. Criticism, from the first critic reviews to contemporary monographs, reflect the entire path Yakut literary criticism development. In the 1920s, young criticism took a difficult path of transition from literature to political struggle field. The cultural, historical, and socio-political situation in the country resulted in the opposite opinions of critics and writers from that period, about Yakut literature classics work. The study is grounded on the synaestheticism principle. The results of the study consist in the analysis and systematization of the first critical comments, reviews, and articles and previously unrevealed materials from periodicals of this period, which allows identifying the peculiarities of the perception of the first poet’s creative heritage by critics and writers of the emerging Yakut literature.