Conceptualization of subjectivity is based on the linguistic mediation of cognitive processes, existential experience, and intellectual practices. The letter is the most exact expression of script culture in general. The dialogical character of a letter defies its semantics, its openness to another consciousness and the possibility of self-substantiation of the “I”; i.e. the formation of an individual identity. It is a poetic text, addressed to the reader’s mind and open to dialogic sense; it provides the ultimate existential openness of an individual poetic “I,” and at the same time its radical difference from the real “I.”

An artistic conceptualization has always been of particular importance in Russian culture, including the artistic conceptualization of subjectivity. The article focuses on the evolution of the existential conceptualization of subjectivity, conditioned by this existential communication and analyses a few texts by Joseph Brodsky and Dmitry Bykov. A comparison of these authors makes it possible to trace the qualitative changes of the subjectivity starting from the 1970s up to the beginning of the 21 century.

Tolerance and dialogue are examined as complementary realities. The former is not understood as disregard for objective truth but rather as respect for each person in their search for it. It is a prerequisite for dialogue, understood as mutual progress towards the truth. A transformation of hearts is necessary for genuine tolerance and the resulting dialogue. This is the only way to peace and the progress of peoples.