M. I. Tsvetaeva, according to the researcher of her work A. A. Sahakyants, " treated her letters as if they were prose. The most important ones were usually entered first in a draft notebook, in the form of diary entries, and the further fate of these entries was already dictated by circumstances: some were used in essays..., others became the content of letters" (Saakyants A. A. Letters of the poet / / Tsvetaeva M. I. Sobr. soch.: In 7 vols. Moscow, 1995. Vol. 6. P. 5; then only p.). However, it would be unfair to consider the entries from the "Summary Notebooks" only as rough drafts for letters. The concept of "notebook" had a collective and generalizing meaning for Tsvetaeva: due to the integrity of her nature, the poetess did not differentiate her notes into everyday, business, analytical, intimate, and rough ones. "What will happen to me will be in the notebook. What will not happen to me - it will not be in the notebook-or rather: it will be-in the notebook " (Tsvetaeva M. Unpublished. Consolidated notebooks, Moscow, 1997, p. 328). "Notebook" served as a diary for Tsvetaeva. In one of her letters from 1935, the poetess says:: "By myself (soul) I was only in my notebooks...". This is evidenced by a comparative analysis of her letters to Pasternak and Bachrach in 1922-23 and parallel entries from the "Consolidated Notebooks": synonymous substitutions, grammatical variants, periphrases, development of thoughts and syntax changes not only reveal the process of working with a prose word in the epistolary genre, but also demonstrate the transition of the poetess ' thought from one genre system (diary) to another (letter). Belonging to the primary discourse, the diary and the letter have similar features, but they also have a fundamental difference: the diary belongs to the type of autocommunication, the letter is sent to a real addressee (Another). Why did the appeals to Pasternak and Bachrach first appear in the form of diary entries? Not just because, page 16 that ... Read more