The article deals with the poetics of the poem “Semiramis” (1909) by Nicolay Gumilev, included in his book of verses titled Pearls (1910). This text is one of the mythopoetic variants of the reflexive comprehension of ...

The subject of analysis in this article is the function of portraits placed in the semiosphere of the house, primarily the family nest. The author of the article, referring to the works of Yuri Lotman and other representatives ...

The window in Victor Pelevin’s works has numerous connotations, i.e. it is an element of the living space shaping the protagonist’s relationship with the outside world, defining his (i.e. the protagonist’s) position towards ...

In this article, I trace some effects produced by Baroque on the Russian poetry and question the traditional attitude to the cultural epoch as to somewhat occasional and uninfluential; a mere buffer between the traditional ...

In this article, a connection between Pushkin’s The Postmaster and Babel’s The Kiss is demonstrated. The links between the stories go far beyond the general likeness of the plot, which follows the pattern of Nikolai ...

The subject of the article is a poetic text from the manuscript in Tikhonravov’s collection, which is presented in the Russian State Library. It was created under the influence of medieval books, related to the theme of ...

The appeal of Russian Germans to the genre situation and signs of idyll is largely due to the desire to find rest and harmony in a serene artistic reality, to create a world image of peace and tranquility. The idyll of ...

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 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 ...