The subject of interest in this article is the myth of Don Juan in the life and literary works of two great figures of the Silver Age – Alexander Blok and Valery Bryusov. The consideration of the biographies of writers ...

The article is devoted to Nikolay Gumilev’s appeal to the topic of recalling past incarnations, understood as the mystical ability of memory. This topic was popular in the period of the Silver Age in Russian literature. ...

The article deals with the history of the creation and publication of poems included in Iosif Brodsky’s cycle From ‘Old English Songs’. The stanzaic features of all four poems suggest that the songs by Robert Burns translated ...

The paper discusses two pieces of poetry from the early period of Iosif Brodsky’s creative work (early 1960s): the long poem Zofia and the 16-line verse “Leti otsiuda, belyi motyljok…” [En. “Fly away from here, white ...

The start of the third decade of the 21st century marks twenty years of the existence of the verbatim technique in the Russian dramatic space. This article describes the history and specificity of the Russian verbatim ...

The article analyses Dmitry Bykov’s poem “Snake Island”, an example of essential civil lyrics. The text was first published on the “Novaya Gazeta” website on February 26, 2022, two days after the Russian army’s intrusion ...

The article examines the poetics of the book Pis’mo v chetvyortoi stepeni [Writing in the Fourth Degree], published in 2017 by friends of the late author, the writer and philologist Oleg Gorbachev (1980–2016), who wrote ...

Silence, a characteristic theme in Russian literature, also plays a significant role in contemporary Russian fiction. Yevgeny Vodolazkin’s Laurus, Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s The Kukotsky Enigma and Guzel Yakhina’s Deti moi [‘My ...

Pyotr Vegin’s text “Ya ne zabudu svoyei kolybelnoi…” [‘I won’t forget my lullaby’] is weaved of multi-genre motives. Its analysis in the paper substantiates the conclusion that the writer continues the genre history of ...

The article dwells on the specific character of subjectivity in the poems by Genrikh Sapgir. The features of the lyrical subject’s speech and thinking are discussed on basis of the book Deti v sadu [Children in the Garden]. ...