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It is a universally admitted proposition that the very structure of aesthetic ideas in the history of the Russian arts was deepened and widened by that of the 19th century Russian literature, especially by the works of Lev N. Tolstoi and Fedor M. Dostoevski. These two great talents, affected by the Western thoughts, seeked for the origins of what is proper to the Russian arts from the different angles of their own. This fact has an important significance of which, it seems, there is still much for further study. For the history of the 19th century Russian literature, the axis of which is made up of the above two great writers, is likely to have a power, which aids to understand the mode of genealogy in the history of the Russian arts as well as to fill up the dislocation between the histories of the Russian Literature and the Soviet literature at their roots. For example, considerable differences are noted in the appraisals by the Soviet literature side of Tolstoi and Dostoevski with regard to their attitudes toward the Socialist realism. It is, however, probable to think that the differences between their attitudes around the relations of the idea and reality of arts appear to be large ones, seen from the objective point of view.
