The paper identifies and analyses the art of crossing the late prose of V. Rasputin with the
works of A. Platonov. The study of the story by V. Rasputin «The same earth» through the prism
of creativity of Platonov showed the richness of the receptive layer, where one can hear echoes
of the story «The Pit», the story «The Third son». Creative dialogues with Platonov’s prose are
held on a poetic and philosophical level. In poetics, the main motives are the motives of the pit,
the ravine, and the grave which are of central importance in Platonov’s creative work. Philosophically,
a community is manifested in ideas about reviving nature of the earth. The basis for both
authors is the archetypal concept of the earth as the primary source of life, the guardian, and the
parent. However, the main object of the Rasputin’s reception was the novel «Happy Moscow».
In the image of the «building» youth of the main character, in the strategy of her fate, the echoes
of the Chestnova’s biography of Moscow are heard. Of resonance is the parallel «a woman –
a city» which is the leading one in the poetics of the image of the Platonov’s heroine. At the same time, the poetics of Rasputin lacks the ambivalent characteristics which are the key ones
in Platonov’s creativity. Platonov carefully hides the true meaning of his statements in the density
of letters, applies the principle of ambiguous characteristics in the depiction of his artistic world,
which gives semantic ambiguity to his texts. Rasputin, on the contrary, carefully writes a meaningful
plan of his works, motivating the acts of heroes, puts semantic accents in their images and
the images-symbols of a pit, a grave, snow, etc., as if he fears any discrepancies and interpretations
different from his author's intention. This difference in the ways of writing confirms that the
authors’ creativities belong to two different literary paradigms: classical traditionalism in Rasputin
and non-classical artistry in Platonov. The analysis proved that one could hardly speak with
confidence about the Platonic tradition formed in the literature. It is possible to identify some
points of convergence of contemporary authors with Platonov, those that are in different ways
consonant with the artistic searches of each of them. One of such these cases is the work
of V. Rasputin.