The subject of the research in the article is an analysis of the ideas of the writer Mikhail Prishvin on the worldview and creativity of Vladimir Soloukhin. The author, relying on the creative heritage of Prishvin and Soloukhin, paying attention to the spiritual closeness of two major figures of Russian literature, traces the attitude of Vladimir Soloukhin to his teacher Mikhail Prishvin, the dialogue with whom continued throughout Soloukhin’s career. Introduction. The authority of Mikhail Prishvin was unshakable for Vladimir Soloukhin. Prishvin influenced the literary fate of Soloukhin, who, feeling an acute closeness with Mikhail Prishvin always turned to his works and rightly considered Prishvin his main teacher. Purpose. This study is to establish the pattern of Soloukhin’s use of Prishvin’s literary experience. And also, using the example of the artistic, journalistic and epistolary heritage of Mikhail Prishvin and Vladimir Soloukhin, to identify the features of their creative dialogue. The object and materials of our research are the works of Vladimir Soloukhin about Prishvin “The Enchanted Wanderer”, “Beautiful Adygen”, “Grass”, “Letters from the Russian Museum”, where, based on the biographical and historical-typological method, we will try to establish artistic parallels in the works of Vladimir Soloukhin and Mikhail Prishvin. According to the results of the study, it can be concluded that Vladimir Soloukhin repeatedly referred to the work of Mikhail Prishvin as a literary authority. Prishvin helped Soloukhin develop his own individual author's style, as well as to form in Vladimir Soloukhin a persistent skeptical attitude towards progress and new reality, which, according to Mikhail Prishvin, take away from humanity the ability to emotional impulse, the ability to feel and create. In conclusion we conclude that Prishvin’s idea about the disastrous influence of progress on man was discussed most closely and consonant with Vladimir Soloukhin in the essay “Letters from the Russian Museum.” It is in this work that Soloukhin summarizes all of Prishvin’s arguments about modern man as a destructive and doomed personality, who can only be saved by closeness to nature. Thus, Soloukhin voices in his essay one of the most important philosophical postulates of the literary heritage of Mikhail Prishvin: the salvation of the human soul is possible through the revival of connections with nature.