2016 Vol. 7 №1

Anagram, poetic text, symbol, paronomasia, semiotics, diachrony, Russian literature.

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.

The article studies Gasparov's views on the issues of creativity, its deep roots and connected to this the structure of the creative personality. It also examines Gasparov's attitude to literary text translation, text interaction, the national element in the structure of the creative personality. In general, "Notes and statements" by M. Gasparov is analyzed as a literary phenomenon.

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.

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.

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.