The article analyses the image of the first Russian Emperor created in Gavrila Derzhavin’s poetry, from the early poems of the 1770s to the late works written during the Patriotic War of 1812. Only some of the poems directly ...

The penchant for writing poetry became a prominent discussion topic among Russian poets at the very beginning of the 18th century. While poets would usually exonerate themselves of their own “wretched inclination” to versify ...

The article examines the phenomenon of ethnographic fiction which emerged in the Russian culture in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The works of Vladimir Dal dating to the 1830s and 1840s mark the beginnings of this line ...

The paper is an attempt at describing similarities and differences between Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel Laurus (Lavr) and the Old Russian literature, in particular such genres of the latter as the lives of saints, religious ...

The article deals with the absorption of another writer’s poetics in Andrei Dragunov’s poetry. In Dragunov’s Monologica elements of Joseph Brodsky’s poetical method manifest themselves on various textual levels (rhythm, ...

The topos of the dacha – like the topos of the city (St. Petersburg) and that of the garden – is an important element of the spatial dimension of Alexander Kushner’s poetic world. The article attempts to trace the productivity ...

The article is devoted to Anton Chekhov’s creative connection with Yelena Shavrova, for whom he edited her works and helped her have them published. Shavrova followed Chekhov’s advice: she shortened descriptions and removed ...

The paper discusses the underresearched issue of the artistic anthropology of a “second-class” writer as a typological phenomenon, i.e. one which possesses semiotic characteristics independent of particular historical ...

The paper examines how Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden utilises the apparatus of symbolist ornamental prose, one of the characteristic features of Russian Modernism, while it applies postmodern devices to ...