KHASANALI AND SAVELICH “THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER” A.S. PUSHKIN AND “THE PAST DAYS” BY A. KADYRI

Abstract

For a long time, researchers of A. Kadyri’s creativity declared the relationship between Atabek, Yusufbek-haji and their slave Hasanali to be unrealistic and untruthful. Literary scholars and critics did not find in the novel any depiction of the relationship between masters and servants from the perspective of the victorious proletarian revolution. Somewhat later, Sadriddin Aini would write the story “Grandfather the Slave” and the novel “Slaves,” showing in the fate of Nekadam-Rakhimdod and his masters the class-irreconcilable relationships between representatives of the estates. Aini's experience was presented as a standard for the class approach to depicting life. The owner drives away the sick old Nekadam, knowing that now he will not feed himself and his family with his labor. This approach to depicting class relationships was reflected, as we remember, in the second version of Fitrat’s story “The Day of the Last Judgment.”