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The article analyzes the typological proximity of Russian literary heroines fromOlga Ilyinskaya by Goncharov to Nadia Shumina by Chekhov. The Olgaʼs imageopens a gallery of “dreamers” and “visionaries”. Seekers of the highest truth, theywill exist in literature as long as Russian classical literature itself exists. NadyaShumina, the last in the “idealist” gallery, will not be much different from theirpredecessors, who appeared forty years earlier.