The image of Dersu Uzala created by V.K. Arsenyev's , which appears not only in the book of the same name, but also in the story “Across the Ussuri Region”, has long acquired the features of a cult semi-mythological character personifying the harmonious union of man and nature. At the same time, both ordinary readers and representatives of various humanitarian sciences (historians, literary critics, ethnographers) still perceive V.K. Arsenyev dilogy about Dersu Uzala as a documentary narration that does not deviate from the eventual and chronological outline of V.K. Arsenyev's travels of 1902, 1906 and 1907. This does not take into account the fact that this dilogy is, first of all, a work of art, subject to its own laws, which are very far from those laws and principles that govern documentary reports on real events. The article analyzes the correlation of V.K. Arsenyev's travel diaries, containing the main elements of the plot of the dilogy about Dersu Uzala, with the plot of the travelogues that were written on their basis. The study proves that numerous deviations from the "truth" of the diary entries in the books "Across the Ussuriysk Territory" and "Dersu Uzala" are caused not by reasons of a random nature, but by the author's conscious desire to enhance the artistic effect of a particular episode, to correlate the material of the travel diaries with the logic and worldview of the protagonist. In addition, the article introduces into a scientific circulation a newspaper article by V.K. Arsenyev "Regarding the note "Unlawful hunting " (1907). This article was previously unknown to researchers; however, it allows to clarify some details of the true biography of Dersu Uzala.
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