Issue 1/2026

ISSUE FOCUS: LITERATURE AND POWER, WRITERS AND AUTHORITIES

• The “Tyrant of Byzantium” and his conqueror. How Bogdanovič translated Voltaire’s Epistle to the Empress of Russia, Catherine II
  Osokin M.Yu.
• Genre originality and authorial strategies in F.M. Levin’s memoirs, diaries and autobiographical texts of the “Thaw” period and after 1967
  Levchenko T.V.
• The violence of power and the danger of its aestheticization by literature: L. Binet’s experience in the novel HHhH
  Makarova P.A.

Literary images and motifs

• “An example of self-will and the wonderfulness of Nature”: the image of Bakhchisarai in the Crimean travelogues by P.I. Sumarokov
  Rakov A.A.
• Celestial bodies imagery in John Fowles’s fiction
  Chervyakova D.Yu.
• The literary tradition of the Diveyevo Convent: sources and structure
  Kornilov Z.A.

Artistic methods and literary movements

• The Gothic in the French historical and Romantic novel of the first half of the nineteenth century
  Litvinenko N.A.

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures
Russian literature

• The bestiary code in the criminal story of the “Thaw” period
  Fedunina O.V.
• The peculiarity of the city-traveller opposition in D. Danilov’s novel Description of the City
  Aksenova M.V.

Foreign literatures20

• The characteristics of autofiction and autobiographical prose in the work of Hélène Cixous
  Chadova E.V.

Philological workshop

• The opposition “capital – province” in V.O. Bogdanova’s novel Pavel Zhang and Other River Creatures
  Mironova O.A.