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Crimea holds a very special place in the biography of B. D. Grekov (1882—1953), an outstanding Russian historian and a fellow of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Crimea was his long-standing research interest and a place of work and leisure. Some of his years spent in Crimea were very productive, and others were hard and lean. This article presents archive materials and other publications to analyse the stages and episodes of the scholar’s life and oeuvre in Crimea. 1. Office of the Federal Security...

... culturels et comparatisme en Russie. Slavica Occitania. Vol. 30.<br> 34. Espagne, M., 2014. L’ambre et le fossil. Transferts germano-russes dans les sciences humaines. XIXe — XXe siècle. Paris.<br> 35. Espagne, M., 2009. L`histoire de l`art comme transfert culturel. L`itineraire d`Anton Springer. Paris.<br> 36. Espagne, M., 2013. La notion de transfert culturel. Revue Sciences/Lettres, 1. Available at: <a href=" http://rsl "> http://rsl </a>. revues. org/219 ...

This paper analyses structures typical of the classical Chinese poetry and the way they are used in contemporary Chinese verse. The analysis aims to demonstrate the work of traditional textual mechanisms in contemporary Chinese poetry and to describe their functional features. Poems by Dai Weina, Han Bo, Tashi Tentso, and Zhang Zao employ linguistic means that simultaneously engage several levels of utterances. These linguistic means include non-trivial semantic links created by means of phonographics...

The article discusses an alternative version of semiotics in which the process of semiosis is based not on metonymic symbolization (substitution), when one entity stands for another, but on the metaphorical (iconic) representation. The author suggests considering iconicity as a basis for relating the signifier and the signified. This relation is understood as a construed one rather than something determined by physical similarity. The basis for such a revision of iconicity can be found in Lessing's...

This article examines the concept of cultural memory. Special attention is paid to historiographical texts as a means of representation of cultural memory. The author analyses and compares theories describing relations between historiographical and literary texts. Such relations are based on the fiction/non-fiction opposition. It is concluded that the aesthetic component assumes significance in structuring historiographical texts. 1. Assmann, A., Assmann J., 1994. Das Gestern im Heute. Medien...

Thе article examines the connection between conceptualisation and transfer of knowledge in the humanities and analyses the role of these processes in the formation of conceptual and terminological framework for different types of discourse. The study draws on an analytical description of the development of the concept of energy in the Christian Orthodox discourse. The description was provided from the perspective of transferology — a new metadiscipline aimed to study the meaning-focused transformations...

Translation is a multidimensional phenomenon. All the theories stress the diversity of its types and strategies. Phenomena described as an unexplainable deviation within one theory can form the foundation for another. This may lead to the idea of replacing a theory of translation with its empiric version. However, a different approach is also possible. The outlines of the theory of translational and traductological relativity can be derived from the ideas first voiced by Schleiermacher in his lecture...

... in the space of modern science. Politicheskaya nauka [Political science], 3, pp. 30—45 (in Russ.). Lotman, Yu. M., 2000. Semiosfera [Semiosphere]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.). Lotman, Yu. M., 1998. Structure of artistic text. In: Ob iskusstve [About art]. St. Petersburg. pp. 14—285 (in Russ.). Pirs, Ch. S., 2000. Izbrannye filosofskie proizvedeniya [Selected philosophical works]. Moscow (in Russ.). Sossyur, F. de., 1977. Course of General Linguistics. In: Trudy po yazykoznaniyu [Works on linguistics]....

This article considers general conditions for anagrammatic transformations from the perspective of phonological processes and rules of syntax, which helps to identify fundamental cognitive factors leading to the possibility of anagrams. These are the transcendence of temporal linear organisation of discursive formation and their comprehensive understanding at deep levels of human mentality. 1. Арутюнова Н. Д., Толстая С. М. От редактора // Логический анализ языка. Язык и время. М., 1997. С. 5—16...

Karsavin’s book Giordano Bruno is considered in the context of its author’s biography. The article explores the hypothesis about the deep ideational and spiritual connection between Karsavin and Giordano Bruno forged by undoing the fetters of rationality through a mystical epiphany. It is shown that, in the book, Karsavin foresaw his own academic fate. 1. Книжная полка // Воронежская коммуна. 1922. № 178 (830). 2. Карсавин Л. Noctes Petropolitanae. Петербург, 1922. 3. Карсавин Л. П. О началах...

This article examines the new genre created by L. M. Gasparov — the ‘interdiscursive novel’. The author analyses characteristics of the genre, in particular, its termhood, research features, flexible interaction with methodology, and journalistic style. These characteristics of ‘the interdiscursive novel’ reflect general trends observed in contemporary literary thought. 1. Автономова Н. С. Открытая структура: Якобсон — Бахтин — Лотман — Гаспаров. М., 2009. 2. Ваш М. Г.: Из писем Михаила Леоновича...

This article considers the possibilities of using the frame approach to teaching Russian as a foreign language. The author examines the content and structure of the learning frame of “Russian holidays.” The means to organise vocabulary and grammar elements are pre¬sented within a concrete frame model 1. Берков В. П., Беркова А. В., Беркова О. В. Как мы живем. Пособие по страноведению для изучающих русский язык. СПб., 2002. 2. Гурина Р. В. Соколова Е. Е. Фреймовое представление знаний. М., 2005...

This article considers foreign policy events relating to Russia’s participation in the Balkan issue in the early 20th century. One of the major considerations behind Russia’s Balkan policy was the possibility of Bulgaria seizing Constantinople and Serbia gaining access to the Adriatic Sea 1. Документи о спољној политици Краљевине Србије 1903—1914, в редакции Михаило Војводић. Београд, 1984. Књ. 5. Св. 1. 2. Документи о спољној политици Краљевине Србије 1903—1914. Београд, 1985. Књ. 5. Св. 1. 3...

The article examines the structure of Baratynsky’s poem and compares it to a Karamzin’s tale because in spite of some substantial differences these two works prove to be clearly similar. The characters could be more deeply understood if the esearch goes into their inner world. Such analysis allows to discover a few psychological strategies introduced into literary practice by Karamzin: the author’s presence in fictional world, "closeups", "anthropocentric" landscape, specific...

This article outlines the major problems of studying Russian hagiography. The author responds to the challenge of performing a comprehensive analysis of a hagiographic text, while preserving the unity of the content and the form. Considering hagiography as an ecclesiastical genre and a form of the Sacred Tradition, the author addresses the analysis methodology and proposes to combine the principles of hagiology and literary and philological research on hagiographic texts. The primary focus is on...

This article addresses the history of anagrams in the European culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The author stresses the variety of application of anagrams within cultural practices of difference social groups. Promising areas of research on anagrams in the context of European culture are identified. 1. Дементьев И. О. «Что (не) написал Соссюр»: полвека дискуссий о теории анаграмм // Вестник Балтийского федерального университета им. И. Канта. 2015. № 8. С. 17—25. 2. Ивлева М. А. Вторичное...

A new interpretation of the novel "The Pyramid" by L. Leonov is suggested. The article supports the idea that in his ideology developed in the novel, Leonov is close to Dostoevsky: the central religious and philosophical statement of the novel is the ontological duality of existence where good and evil, God and Devil actively oppose each other. 1. Варламов А. Наваждение Леонида Леонова // Журнал русской культуры. 1997. № 4. 2. Дунаев М. М. Православие и русская литература. М., 2000...

This article revises the traditional views of Tyutchev as a panthesist, Schellingian, etc. Poems, articles, and letters are used to emphasise the Christian foundations of his oeuvre, which focuses on the anthropological problem of the ‘mystery of the human being’. The vicissitudes of human spirit, the dramatic conflict between two major metaphysical principles of anthropocentric free will and veneration of god – these and similar issue comprise the world-view foundation of the physiophilosophical...

This article compares two short stories by A. P. Platonov separated by a ten-year inter¬val but following the same plot scheme. Both works address the idea of “enteral return,” therefore they can be considered in the context of the problem of “Platonov and Nietzsche.” 1. Дмитровская М. «Огненная Мария» // «Страна философов» Андрея Платонова: проблемы творчества. М., 2003. Вып. 5. 2. Кеба А. В. Андрей Платонов и мировая литература XX века: типологические связи. Каменец-Подольский, 2001. 3. Ливингстон...

... Wolfenbüttel 27—31. August 1973. Vorträge und Berichte. Wolfenbüttel, 1973. 11. Opitz M. Gesammelte Werke. Kritische Ausgabe. Hrsg. von G. Schulz-Behrend. Bd. II. Die Werke von 1621 bis 1626. Teil. 1. Stuttgart, 1978. 12. Ronsard P. de: Abrege de l’art poetique franqois. Paris, 1565. 13. Scaliger J. C. Poetices libri septem. Faks. Nachdr. d. Ausg. Lyon, 1561 mit einer Einl. von A. Buck. Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt, 1964.

The article presents an overview of the anniversary texts about N. M. Karamzin, and analyses semiotics and pragmatics of his image. The author assumes that the jubilee event and constructing N. M. Karamzin’s image depends on the socio-cultural context and identifies forms of "revival" and “modernizing” the celebrant. 1. Балдин А. Карамзин как множество // Октябрь. 2016. № 12. URL: http://magazines.russ.ru/october/2016/12/karamzin-kak-mnozhestvo.html (дата обращения: 15.10.2016). 2...

This article addresses the structure of the ‘mission’ religious conceptual field in the discourse of the German theologian J. H. Wichern. The structure of the corresponding core concept incorporates basic characteristics – representatives of group meanings and varying characteristics, i. e. the author’s interpretation of group meanings. 1. Кубрякова Е. С. О тексте и критериях его определения // Текст: Структура и семантика. М., 2001. Т. 1. С. 72—81. 2. Макаров М. Л. Основы теории дискурса. М....

The article focuses on the comparative analysis of V. Rozanov's "Apocalypse of our time" and G. Ivanov's prosaic poem , "Disintegration of the atom" in the context of eschatological traditions of Russian literature. Dialogical relations are established between the existential tragic perception of the two authors and the Old Believers' concept of spiritual antichrist. 1. Бердяев Н. А. Духи русской революции // Вехи. Из глубины. М., 1991. 2. Бердяев Н. А. Смысл истории. Новое...

This article examines the first attempts at introducing realistic portraits into Eastern European religious paintings. The author identifies stages in the development of this trend and describes aspects of cultural synthesis embodied in a portrait as the first secular genre of painting. A distinctive feature of this process is depicting an actual person in a religious context. 1. Александрович В. С. Портретная живопись во Львове в последней четверти XVI века // Памятники культуры. Новые открытия...

This article considers the relevant linguistic problem of metalinguistic potential of a natural language and its functions in a literary text in the case of the Russian language. The Russian language and natural languages in general act as a universal cognitive model capable of describing different codes presented in literary texts 1. Бороздина Г. В. Психология делового общения. М., 2003. 2. Крейдлин Г. Е. Невербальная семиотика: Язык тела и естественный язык. М., 2002. 3. Крейдлин Г. Е. Семантические...

The article reveals the relevance of N. Karamzin’s historical and providential method in the context of philosophical hermeneutics of H.-G. Gadamer. Highlighting a deep connection of the ideological basis of Karamzin’s historiography with the up-to-now-incomplete search for the “Russian idea” the paper shows the suitability of appealing to Karamzin’s historiographical methodology against the backdrop of still controversial dynamics of Russian history, with its typical duality, dual beliefs, and vagueness...

This article analyses Bruno Schulz’s autobiographical novel Cinnamon Shops in the aspect of mythological thinking. It is stressed that the concept of ‘childhood’ is the foundation of his mythopoeia largely shaped by the author’s memories of his father and other members of the household. 1. Денисенко В. Тема отца в Коричных лавках. URL: http://samlib.ru/d/denisenko_w_a/shulc . Shtml (дата обращения: 24.04.2015). 2. Шульц Б. Коричные лавки / пер. А. Эппеля. М., 1993. 3. Ficowski J. Regiony wielkiej...

The article shows that an important detail of Sambia female outfit, the estias, a mixed form of Sambia belt originated from German and provincial-Roman patterns, dates back to the middle or the third quarter of the I century AD. The emergence of a number of tools of intercultural origin (Sambia belts are among them) presupposes the co-existance of different ethnic groups in Sambia in the Julio-Flavian time. 1. Казанский М. М. Реки восточной части Балтийского бассейна и античные географы. Еще раз...

This article identifies the dominant ideas of global and national culture comprising a special realm of pedagogical values designated as Orthodox pedagogical culture. These ideas are identified as spiritual foundations – an aggregate of standards playing a key role in describing the phenomenon of Orthodox pedagogical culture. 1. Амфилохий (Радович Ристо, митр. Черногорский и Приморский). Человек — носитель вечной жизни. М., 2005. 2. Дивногорцева С. Ю. Историко-теоретический анализ православной...

This article considers the key provisions relating to the nature and structure of the word in human mental space. The author distinguishes between the word as an asset of an individual (the “living” word) and the word as found in a dictionary. It is concluded that there is a dramatic difference between the mental lexicon and a dictionary as a lexico¬graphic unit. 1. Анохин К. В. Когнитом: в поисках общей теории когнитивной науки // Шестая международная конференция по когнитивной науке : тез. докл...

... 23. McRae A. Literature, satire and the early Stuart state. Cambridge, 2004. 24. Pieczyński M. Kirke, Proteusz i Lutnia rozstrojona. O poezii experymentalnej późnego baroku w świetle wypowiedzi teoretycznych. Warszawa, 2013. 25. Puttenham G. The Art of English poesy. A critical edition / ed. F. Whigham, W. A. Rebhorn. Ithaca ; L., 2007. 26. Richelet P. Nouveau dictionnaire français. Amsterdam, 1709. T. 1. 27. Rudt de Collenberg W. H. Le baptême des musulmans esclaves à Rome aux XVIIe et XVIIIe ...

The article dwells on the long-established popular version of the "Byzantine" origin of the Russian state emblem: the image of the double-headed eagle is allegedly associated with the marriage of the Great Prince of Moscow Ivan III and Sophia Palaeologus, successor to the Roman and Byzantine Empires. N. Karamzin’s role in promoting and substantiating this version is considered, alongside discussing the longevity of this hypothesis and a critical attitude to it from the point of view of...

The fact that Teutonic knights fought in the Battle of the Ice in sivnflyking formation trying to destroy Alexander Nevsky’s troops and sustained a defeat is commonly acknowledged in Russian history. This article is an attempt to establish whether the use of this formation is a historical fact or another historical myth. 1. Арбузов Л. А. Очерки истории Лифляндии, Эстляндии и Курляндии. СПб., 1912. 2. Бискуп М. Великая война Польши и Литвы с Тевтонским орденом (1409—1411 гг.) в свете новейших исследований...

The article compares the facts of life and work of the Eastern Slavonic Orthodox artists of the second half of the XVII century — Simon Ushakov (Moscow) and Matvey Domaradsky (Lviv), who were granted the highest official status in their profession by the governors of the states. 1. Gębarowicz M. Początki malarstwa historycznego w Polsce // Studia z historii sztuki. 1981. T. 34. 2. Gębarowicz M. Portret 16—18 wieku we Lwowie. Wrocław ; Warszawa ; Kraków, 1969. 3. Kосiв Р. Iкони на полотнi «Богородиця-Втiлення»...

This article stresses the theoretical ‘touching points’ of S. Freud’s theory of dream in¬terpretation and modern cognitive linguistics. The authors stress the relevance of such lin¬guistic transformations as metaphor, metonymy, symbolisation, paronymy, homonymy, language game, and associative networks for Freud’s theory. Moreover, polysemy, initial context conditions, and the transfer of content from one coding into another — from the iconic image system into the symbolic conceptual one — also play...

This article considers the semantics of Russian and Lithuanian zoonym phraseological units and performs their semantic and structural systematisation. The author identifies the cultural linguistic features of fixed expressions containing a zoonym component in the worldview of native speakers. 1. Гак В. Г. Сравнительная типология французского и русского языков. М., 1976. 2. Гудавичюс А. Сопоставительная семасиология литовского и русского языков. Вильнюс, 1985. 3. Зайнуллина Л. М. Композиционная...

The article shows a link between culture-specific concepts and the phenomenon of political nation. The author reveals political conditionality of national mentality by intercultural communication. All these phenomena and processes are examined from the point of view of a system of synergies. The author identifies the bifurcation points in the history of national states, which determine their development. 1. Белоцеркивець Н. Кривенька качечка, или Еще раз о «трагедии Центрально-Восточной Европы»...

Writing his History of the Russian State N. M. Karamzin used the Russian chronicles, embassy documents, and diplomatic correspondence. He was among the first historians to turn to foreign sources, and to that end had to obtain copies of the documents shedding light on the relations between the Moscow State and the Teutonic Order in the first quarter of the 16th century. In the following years and up to the present time, however, both Russian and German researchers have been paying little attention...

This article identifies the origins of some ideological stereotypes relating to the perception of Serbs in Russia in the late 18th/19th century and their political and economic practices. It is shown that, on the one hand, the image of Serbs was largely distorted by ideas prevalent in the Russian society at the time and, on the other hand, Russians were illinformed about the perception of Russia in Serbia. 1. Архив внешней политики Российской империи. 2. Богоявленский С. К. Из русско-сербских...

This article draws on the results of monitoring the Russian language functioning in the world. The monitoring was conducted on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in 2004 and the Ministry of Education and Science in 2011—2012. The study used data provided by censuses, national ministries of education, and Russian research and cultural centres abroad. An important contribution was expert judgements from heads of national associations of teachers of Russian language...

This article examines the mechanisms of dream interpretation used by C. G. Jung. It is shown that they differ in depth. The surface level of linguistic consciousness is the focus of paronomasic connections between words in dream descriptions. Deeper levels are targeted by semantic mechanisms: associative, metaphorical, and metonymical ones. In these conditions, of special importance is the interpretation of symbols. These mechanisms serve as the basis for C. G. Jung’s method of dream interpretation...

This article presents an ethnolinguistic study. The magic properties of certain herbs – as seen in the cultural traditions of South, East, and West Slavs – are described in a comparative aspect. The author also examines different herbs that exhibit similar features. It is concluded that the magic properties of herbs are determined by their connection to the chthonic kingdom and the other world in folk consciousness.

The article discusses some exercises of N. M. Karamzin, the first great Russian writer who worked in the prosaic miniature`s form, a short text which we compare to a poetic one. In the Russian tradition the prosaic miniature developed primarily in journals and magazines. Translations, sometimes fragmentary, from European languages, of both poetic and prosaic texts became one of the main sources of the Russian prosaic miniature. Karamzin started with some translated miniature texts and went on to...

The article is sourced from the first 48 issues of The Messenger of Europe founded by N. M. Karamzin who was the publisher, editor and author of most articles of this literary and political journal in 1802—1803. The paper presents a systematised survey of the publications on the most important developments in England’s foreign and domestic policy. Special attention is paid to the articles in the Messenger of Europe concerning various aspects of Britan’s struggle against Napoleonic France. Those articles...

This article is dedicated to the works of a professor from the University of Königsberg, Liudvikas Rėza (1776—1840), a prominent figure in the history of Lithuanian culture acclaimed for his work in collecting, studying, and publishing Lithuanian folklore. Rėza was the first to publish Donelaitis’s poem The Seasons in Lithuanian with a German translation, which happened in Königsberg in 1818. Despite his renown, Rėza remains a true mystery for researchers, being a serious scholar, a poet, and a theologian...

This article analyses attitudes relevant to dream interpretation according to Fromm. The central element is understanding the image of a dream as a symbol common to both the realm of dreams and culture in general. The key mechanism of symbol formation is cultural- associative, which is a function of human rational thinking. It is suggested that images of dreams should be interpreted from this perspective. 1. Купер Дж. Энциклопедия символов. М., 1995. 2. Д. Тресиддер. Словарь символов. М., 1999...

This article examines, in lyrical terms, the practices of poetical translations, identifies its key theoretical principles, and considers the role of a translator in the creation of a good translation. Serbian Russian poetical connection and the translations of S. Raičković 1. Горький М. Собр. соч. : в 30 т. М., 1955. Т. 30. 2. Заболоцкий Н. А. Собр. соч. : в 3 т. М., 1983. 3. Памятники средневековой латинской литературы IV—IX веков. М., 1970. 4. Пушкин А. С. Полн. собр. соч. : в 16 т. М. ; Л...

This article considers the types of anagrams used by Bulgakov in creating the names of characters. The analysis is based on the novels The White Guard, The Master and Margarita, The Fatal Eggs, Diaboliada, and Heart of a Dog, the play Flight, and various satirical articles and essays. 1. Амфитеатров А. В. Собр. соч. : в 10 т. М., 2000. Т. 1. 2. Булгаков М. А. Собр. соч. : в 8 т. М., 2007—2011. 3. Гаспаров Б. М. Литературные лейтмотивы. М., 1994. 4. Гоголь Н. В. Полн. собр. соч. : в 14 т. М. ;...

The article examines various means of expressing the author’s modality which is explicit about the author’s intentions and evaluations in “Poor Liza” by N. Karamzin. The question of relations between the “narrator” and the “author” is in the focus. The analysis og the story shows that the category of the author’s modality gets implemented with the language means of various levels, i. e. evaluative adjectives, explicit modal words and word combinations (certain word-combinations with modal verbs and...