HISTORICAL ESSAY BY ALEXANDER GUGNIN: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PROBLEMS

The article examines an essay by literary critic and translator A.A. Gugnin on literary relations between Germany and Russia. The scientist has been working on this topic for over 35 years. The essay became a conceptual reflection of the application of the author's historical and contextual method to the study of literature. Gugnin's thoroughly written Scientific work includes over 300 sources and is, in fact, an encyclopedic compendium of the stated topic. Russian Russian and German literary works, philologists, critics, artistic works of German and Russian literature from antiquity to the present day are mentioned and characterized by the author. He focuses on the typological parallels of the development of culture in different countries, presents the history of translations, the history of influences. All this gives him the op-portunity to state the general trends in the development of German-Russian literary relations.