To a question of the Russian-Serbian literary crossings

The review examines the “Slavic” articles of the scientific collection “Classics and modernity: Gogol, Turgenev, Gorky” (Belgrade, Moscow, Tyumen, Voronezh, 2018). Their analysis makes it possible to clarify certain topics of Serbian literature of the XX century, particularly, the ideological and artistic features of the work of the largest Serbian poet of the last century, Jovan Ducic and the Nobel laureate, writer Ivo Andric. As well it allows to highlight some aspects of the Russian-Serbian cultural relations of the XIX– XX centuries. Special attention should be paid to the work devoted to N. V. Gogol and the perception of his creative heritage in the Slavic world (articles by V. A. Voropayev, E. V. Sartakov). However, a critical analysis of the article by S. N. Meshcheryakov allows us to raise the question of Gogol’s tradition in Serbian literature. The works of Serbian authors about the work of A. M. Gorky are of considerable interest (article Curica B., Vraneš and L. A. Markovich, S. Т., Bruskewitz), because they give possibility to put a number of important questions on Russian-Serbian cultural and public relations of XIX — beginning