The article introduces into scientific circulation for the first time the correspondence between P.A. Vyazemsky and F.N. Glinka from the 1820s to the 1860s from the collections of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (f. 141, reg. 1, storage units 141, 211; f. 195, reg. 1, storage units 602, 632, 1731). It is noted that the exchange of letters between the two parties was not constant and was carried out as practical necessity dictated. The correspondence of the first half of the 1820s is connected with the admission of P.A. Vyazemsky to the honorary membership of the Free Society of Lovers of Russian Literature (FSLRL), chaired by F.N. Glinka, as well as with his participation in the preparation, on the initiative of the FSLRL, of a new edition 170 of I.I. Dmitriev's "Poems". In 1831 the epistolary dialogue was initiated by P.A. Vyazemsky, who had a dispiute in Tver and who was forced to turn to F.N. Glinka as an old friend, who at that time worked in the Tver Provincial Government. The basis for the resumption of the correspondence in 1847 was the publication of P.A. Vyazemsky's obituary article about S.N. Glinka, the elder brother of F.N. Glinka, and his active participation in the fate of the deceased's family. In two separate letters to P.A. Vyazemsky, dating back to 1856 and 1861, F.N. Glinka appears as a person with a clearly expressed conservative public position, formulated, in particular, in the previously unpublished poem "Two Lives of Russia". The second half of the 1860s was a time of intensive correspondence, P.A. Vyazemsky, caustically criticizing the radicalized democratic environment, sought support in people of his generation, and F.N. Glinka, after the death of his wife, was drawn into litigation related to the division of the inheritance, however, from the 18 letters preserved in the RSALA (Russian State Archive of literature and art) - 16 belong to F.N. Glinka and only 2 to P.A. Vyazemsky. This circumstance allows us to speak about the incompleteness of the presented materials and the necessity for further research in other Russian archives, which will contribute to the accumulation of empirical data for subsequent scientific understanding of the creative relationships between P.A. Vyazemsky and F.N. Glinka, previously only fragmentarily touched upon in works devoted to related scientific problems.
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