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The proposed plot opens with an exposition of the dispute between V. Khodasevich, one of the most striking figures of Russian literary Paris (the article “About Mayakovsky”), and A.L. Bem, the head of the Prague “Skete of Poets” (the article “The Dispute about Mayakovsky”). The subject of the dispute was the figure of V. Mayakovsky, to whom his participants turned soon after the poet’s death. The fierce anti-obituary by V. Khodasevich, who saw in Mayakovsky’s poetry only an imitation of innovation, was opposed to the position of A.L. Bem, asserting the undoubted importance of the poetry of V. Mayakovsky, who influenced the entire further development of Russian poetry. Behind the dispute between Bem and Khodasevich, one could also hear a polemical dialogue between the two “capitals” of the Russian diaspora — Prague and Paris, two literary traditions. Analysis of the works of the participants of the Prague “Skete” — Vyach. Lebedev, M. Skachkov, A. Turintsev, A. Fotinsky, A. Golovina — reveals the influence of Mayakovsky’s work on the poetic searches of the poets of Russian Prague.