Гете в неопубликованных дневниках и письмах Э.К. Метнера: К проблеме жизнетворчества в русском символизме

The article dwells on autobiographical documents (diaries and letters) devoted to Goethe from the Moscow archive of E. Medtner. The author reconstructs a cultural utopia – another one among Russian Symbolist projects of self-fashioning: Transforming Goethe from an aesthetic model and an object of personal cult into the founder of a new religion – “Saint Wolfgang”.