Novels by Gaito Gazdanov and Mental Changes in Literary Consciousness of Russian First-Wave Émigré Writers of the 20th Century

The first wave of Russian émigré writers of the 20th century has attracted attention as an internally heterogeneous phenomenon for quite a long time. There are two generations of this wave traditionally distinguished by the researchers: the older (I. Bunin, I. Shmelev, and others) and the younger (V. Nabokov, G. Gazdanov, and others). The focus, as a rule, is on the formal differences in the legacy of these writers. This publication attempts to describe the essential differences in the artistic worldview