RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2312-92202312-9247Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)3230210.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-3-497-503Research ArticleRussian formalists and Russian literatureBerezhnayaYekaterina P.<p>PhD in Philology, chief librarian</p>bereg.63@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1012-8764State Public Scientific-Technological Library, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences1210202227349750312102022Copyright © 2022, Berezhnaya Y.P.2022<p style="text-align: justify;">Russian literature of the present day has lost its statehood and no longer pretends to build its own laws of development in the historical movement. The “dictatorship of art” predicted by the formalists, intended for the total textuality of Russian culture, turned out to be a predominantly optimistic slogan that has lost its stimulating function in the context of living literary reality. The research is devoted to the problem of interaction of Russian literature and formalism. Russian literature in the works of Russian formalists was considered as an autonomously existing system structure that simulates a “different” reality, independent of social and political conditions. The movement of literature in a functional perspective determined the activities and tasks of the so-called “formal school” mainly represented by Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum and Yury Tynyanov.</p>Russian formalismYury TynyanovBoris EikhenbaumViktor ShklovskyAutobiographyliterary lifeliterary factdoing thingsрусский формализмЮ.Н. ТыняновБ.М. ЭйхенбаумВ.Б. ШкловскийАвтобиографиялитературный бытлитературный фактделанье вещи[Eikhenbaum, B.M. (1987). About literature. Works of different years. (In Russ.)][Iakobson, R. (1987). The latest Russian poetry. First sketch. Works on Poetics (272–316). (In Russ.)][Shklovskii, V. (1983). About prose theory. (In Russ.)][Tynianov, Iu. (1966a). Autobiography. Yuri Tynyanov. Writer and Scientist. Memories. Reflections. Meetings (pp. 9–20). (In Russ.)][Tynianov, Iu. (1966b). From notebooks. Teach me, town of Scheritsa, to speak. Novyi Mir, (8), 120–137. (In Russ.)][Tynianov, Iu.N. (1969). Pushkin and his contemporaries. (In Russ.)][Tynianov, Iu.N. (1977). Poetics. Literary history. Movie. (In Russ.)]