События Гражданской войны в рассказах калмыцкого писателя-эмигранта С. Балыкова

The article analyzes the Civil War theme in the work of emigrant writer Sanzha Balykov based on the example of a number of works. Updating the documentary beginning in the works, the author projects the main points of the emergence of Kalmyk emigration, builds the entire historical background of the forced mass exodus of Kalmyks abroad. The stories of S. Balykov are a reliable historical document describing the complex “time-space” of Kalmyk history. Both the narrative as a whole and the image of the heroes of the stories embody the dramatic fate of the nation, the universal calamity that is obviously inseparable from the fate of the writer himself. The author’s achievement is that, having shown the tragedy and fate of the Kalmyk people in a completely different light, he “transformed” his previous views on the events of history that have not been described in Kalmyk fiction before him