In accordance with the plans for the preparation of a scientific collection of works and a scientific biography of B.A. Sadovskoy, the study of his St. Petersburg literary contacts continues. This article is devoted to the almost unexplored issue of Sadovskoy's relationship with Alexander Alekseevich Izmailov, head of the literary department of the newspaper "Birzhevye Vedomosti", a satirical critic, novelist, poet. Sadovskoy's personal acquaintance with Izmailov was preceded by their printed characteristics of each other's creative individuality. Sadovskoy published in 1911 a review of Izmailov's collection of literary and critical prose, "Literary Olympus". Izmailov published a parody of Sadovskoy's conceptually important poem "Great-Grandfather" in the same year. And, although the parody, perhaps, could not suit Sadovskoy with its ideological orientation, nevertheless it played a certain beneficial role for him, because it added to his fame, popularity, and recognition. So, in the Soviet years, when Sadovskoy was practically not published, Izmailovsky's parody, which was included in anthologies of works of the corresponding genre, reminded of his name and poems. The personal acquaintance of Sadovskoy and Izmailov took place in 1913. It was very important for Sadovskoy to establish connections with an influential critic. This could help him establish himself in the capital's literary world, achieve true recognition of his artistic abilities, which, in his opinion, critics appreciated little. Izmailov wrote about Sadovskoy in several articles 140 and emphasized his undoubted talent as a writer. Through Izmailov, Sadovskoy gained permanent cooperation with "Birzhevye Vedomosti", one of the largest newspapers in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Sadovskoy's texts published in it are almost unknown to modern researchers and readers and need to be introduced into scientific circulation. The article provides the first publication of the correspondence between Sadovskoy and Izmailov, with an appropriate comment. A letter from L.N. Andreev to Sadovskoy is also being printed for the first time. The Appendices reproduce the texts of articles by Sadovskoy and Izmailov that have not been republished since the first publication in the pre-revolutionary press.
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