One of the most striking episodes in Sergei Yesenin’s story Yar (1915) is the description of the folk ritual of ploughing a village against an anthrax epizootic. It is ethnographically accurate, based on the personal ...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s works are characterized by the large number of references to the most diverse cultural phenomena of the depicted era. Her novel The Big Green Tent is dedicated to the generation ofthe dissidents of the ...

This article addresses the phenomenon of bilingualism in the poetry of Leonid Kiselev (1946–1968), which is analyzed as the basis for the internal dialogic nature of the Kyiv poet’s lyrics. The immanent dialogism of Kiselev’s ...

In this article the reasons are discussed for early Osip Mandelshtam’s refusal to publish his poems about love. There is also a discussion about how the poet disguised the love theme in the lyrics written in the period ...

The object of this article is modern Russian-language poetry in Ukraine as represented by its main personalities. The author argues that Russian-language literature in Ukraine is afar from accidental phenomenon andthat it ...

This article explores a transcultural film adaptation, offerinf new avenues for discussing cross-cultural dialog. The article analyzes the transcultural adaptation of Doctor Zhivago, written by Boris Pasternak. The book was ...

This article contains criticism of the neoliberal concept of positive freedom. The author offers his understanding of the ideal of freedom, which is based not on economic, but on social and psychological criteria. The ...