N.S. Tikhonov’ s role in russian-azerbaijan literary relations

In the former Soviet Union, the literature of the peoples living in the semi-colonial conditions of the allied socialist republics was always under the attention and control of the center, mainly for ideological reasons. However, as literature also developed in its natural course, the appeal of Russian-Soviet writers to the East ultimately had a progressive content and character. From this point of view, N.Tikhonov, A.Fadeyev, K.Simonov and other Russian-Soviet writers appealed to the life, history, freedom struggle of the peoples of the East, including the Middle East, and revived the theme and images of Islam, the Caucasus and Azerbaijan in their works. Showed loyalty to the traditions of his predecessors. The article examines N. Tikhonov's works written in different genres about the representatives of Azerbaijani literature.