Yasniie Poliany and Petersburg Corners of Russia and Russian Literature (Prophesies and Prognostications of E. Pardo Bazán)

The article analyzes E. Pardo Bazán’s concept of Russian literature, as formulated in her book "La Revolución y la Novela en Rusia". The work of the Spanish female writer is considered in the context of the «prophetic» pronouncements of the Russian 19th-century writers regarding the fates of the Russian novel in Europe, as well as in the context of her predecessors’ and contemporaries’ writings, primarily those of E.-M. de Vogüé. The perspective of the perception of the Russian literature abroad in the 20th century, as pre-chartered in Pardo Bazán’s book, is traced, the patterns of her true and false prognostications are identifi ed, including dispute over Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.