This article is the end of the study, the first part of which – “A dark-skinned muse: A duel in the steppe” – was published in “Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica”, No. 14 (2021). An analysis of the ...

The literature of the Russian diaspora, as one of the brightest national literatures created outside the metropolis, received an unprecedented acute sense of nostalgia as the most effective stimulus for its development. ...

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 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 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 ...

This paper is devoted to the problem of visual representation in a lyric text. The main problem that is solved in the paper is the following: how is Rembrandt Van Rijn’s painitng titled Performance of the rifle company of ...

Alexander Pushkin wrote his ballad “The Song of the Wise Oleg” (1822) in Kishinev during his forced administrative presence in the South (1820–1824). The poem retells, with meaningful differences, a legend in Nikolay ...

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 ...

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 ...