Issue 2/2026

ON THE 250th ANNIVERSARY OF E.T.A. HOFFMANN

• New life of classical heroes in the works of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
  Finogenov V.A.

Literature and society

• The origins of Russian messianism. Book review: Igor Danilevsky. Intellectuals of ancient Rus’: the birth of the temptation of Russian messianism
  Ranchin A.M.
• The poetics of social exclusion in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables: from the tradition of the “roman populaire” to modern strategies of representing marginality
  Sokolova D.A.

Literary images and motifs

• Antiheroes of the Civil War in Early Soviet Literature (Based on M.A. Sholokhov’s And Quiet Flows the Don)
  Belousov M.G.
• Biblical intertext in Regeneration novel by Pat Barker
  Kovalenko E.V.

Nineteenth-century literatures
Russian literature

• Verdi’s Rigoletto and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: a hypothesis on the libretto and music as literary sources for the novel’s title
  Rogov M.A.

Foreign literatures19

• Giacomo Leopardi as a reader of (Pre-)Romantic literature: the reception of Mme de Staël’s Corinne ou l’Italie and J.W. Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers in his poetry
  Arefev D.A.

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures
Russian literature

• The theme of the development of new lands by Russian pioneers in N.P. Zadornov’s novel Amur Saga
  Vorobyev R.S.
• Mythological symbolism as a key to interpreting the spiritual journey of the protagonist in L. Zavalnyuk’s poem On the Way (1956)
  Gamerman J.V., Kireeva N.V.

Foreign literatures20

• The concept of poetry in the works of Gabriela Mistral
  Babaeva A.M., Zhukov A.P.

Philological workshop

• “Word weaving” and the poetry of the Prikaz school
  Likhvar A.V.
• Language as a form of otherness: the poetics of Mikhail Sokovnin’s cycle of miniatures Varius
  Klyuchnikov K.V.