The Realism and Mysticism in the Russian Literature of the Silver Age teaching materials based on the lectures by Professor Boris Averin have been developed at the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. The course is primarily aimed at extending knowledge of the Russian literature of the Silver Age, at getting acquainted with the two major streams in the literature of that period, as well as at demonstrating the differences between Realism and Symbolism at the same time discovering their profound interaction.