The idealistic notions concerning the state and humankind, combined with the criticism of the reality of the time, constituted a significant voice in the late-18th-century discussion about a new vision of Russia. In the ...

Rock poetry has been attracting scholarly attention in Russia since the late 20th century. As a phenomenon of world culture, it dates back to the 1960s; in the Russian cultural sphere, however, its beginnings are usually ...

The article investigates references to Shakespeare in the works of Viktor Shklovsky, an outstanding representative of the Russian formalism. The author of the paper analyses literary studies by Shklovsky in which Shakespeare’s ...

The article is devoted to the issue of montage as a plot-forming technique actively used in modern drama. The possibilities of montage are considered on the basis of the last plays by Vadim Levanov. Levanov is one of the ...

The article discusses the work of one of the most outstanding and original representatives of the “New Drama”, the playwright Yuri Klavdiev (born in 1974). At the most recent stage of his creative work, the author shows ...

Galina Kuznetsova was a Russian writer, poet and memorialist who belonged to the younger generation of the Russian Emigration (the first wave). Her most famous work is the so-called “Grasse Diary”. Kuznetsova’s place in ...

The article is devoted to two authors’ commentaries on their own works: Ivan Turgenev’s – on his novel Fathers and Sons and Ivan Goncharov’s concerning The Precipice. Both writers provided explanations in view of the fact ...

The author of the article focuses attention on the “Upright Confession” (1774), written by the Russian Empress Catherine II in the form of a letter to her new favourite Grigory Potemkin. Catherine speaks to her lover openly ...

The paper examines the mention of Giuseppe Bonechi made by Alexander Sumarokov in his letter to count Shuvalov dated the 12th March 1761 in the context of the quarrel with count Sievers and of Sumarokov’s dismissal from ...

Andrei Bolotov (1738–1833) was one of the most prolific writers of the 18th and early 19th centuries, although much of his heritage remained unpublished. In the subsequent critical and scholarly literature the assessments ...