Issue 4/2025

Literary images and motifs

• The motif of the tyrant’s loneliness in the biographies of Roman emperors
  Mirolyubov I.A.
• Napoleon and the louse in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment
  Podosokorsky N.N.
• “Female tyranny” in the fictional anthropology of F.M. Dostoevsky
  Alpatova T.A.

Literature and other arts

• Ivan the Terrible by V.M. Vasnetsov: the symbolism of tyranny
  Pchelov Е.V.
• “And learn today, o kings”: emblematic lessons for tyrants (Review article based on the writings of A. Makhov)
  Dovgy O.L.

Literature and society

• Dante’s tyrants in the context of medieval culture
  Lozinskaya E.V.
• Despotism and tyranny in Enlightenment literature: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau
  Pakhsarian N.T.

Medieval and renaissance literatures

• First samurai ruler and tyrannical usurper: the image of Taira no Kiyomori in the literary tradition of medieval Japan
  Borisova A.S.

Nineteenth-century literatures
Russian literature

• “Tyrants of the world, tremble...” From the commentary to A.S. Pushkin’s ode Liberty
  Ivinskiy D.P.
• Punishment “by fire” and other executions of Christians during Nero’s persecution in interpretations of the second half of the nineteenth – early twentieth (A.N. Maikov – L.A. Mey – ... – S.F. Mikhailov)
  Mankovsky A.V.

Foreign literatures19

• “Oggi la patria cara gli antichi esempi a rinnovar prepara”: the collision of the relationship between the people and tyrannical power in Leopardi’s early work in light of reflections from the Zibaldone di pensieri
  Arefev D.A.

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures
Russian literature

• The concept of tyranny in Joseph Brodsky: the poem To one tyrant and the essay On tyranny
  Ranchin A.M.

Foreign literatures20

• Till death us do part: domestic violence and tyrannical husbands in A. Christie’s crime novels of the 1930s
  Ternopol T.V.
• Dictator’s figure and its linguistic representation in Jacques Prévert’s works
  Kulagina О.А.