Elena Shkapa

N. S. LESKOV KAK PREDTECHA P. A. FLORENSKOGO

 

The article discusses the position of Nikolai Leskov and Pavel Florensky on Orthodox, old believers, the tradition of icon painting, the influence of creativity on Leskov attitudes Florensky.

Key words: Nikolai Leskov, Pavel Florensky, faith, Orthodox, old believers, iconography, Christmas stories.

 

 

Aleksandr Zholkovskij

KAK SDELAN LOSHADINYJ MEM CHEKHOVA

 

The structure of Anton Chekhov’s famous early story (1885) is analyzed from several points of view: revision of narrative stereotypes, rivalry between sorcery and medical science, narrativization of lists (of anthroponyms), ironic play with verbal magic, and the author’s own hesitation in choosing literature over medicine as his profession.

Key words: narrative, stereotypes, horse, magic, sorcery, medicine, lists.

 

 

Alisa Pautova

SPECIFIKA REALIZACII TRADICII «POSLEDNIH PESEN» V ITOGOVOJ KNIGE STIHOV I. F. ANNENSKOGO «TIHIE PESNI»

 

This article studies cycle of I. F. Annensky’s poems «Quiet songs» for clear up the question about typical features of «last songs» and this specific realization. On the basis of modem literary concepts of cyclic unity as a genre form, we propose an extension of the cycle representations in terms of integrating, conceptual. Considering the «Quiet songs» as part of the final book, to coincide with the experience of writing his fading life, we relate «Quiet songs» with the cycles of «the last songs» on a number of structural features. This was the reader to became a part of the act of writing since the process of reading is ‘slowed down’ (‘freezed’) but also externalizes the natural self-referential actualization of Annensky’s work.

Key words: I. F. Annensky receptional mindset, «last songs», cycle of poem, models of interpretation, reader’s concretization.

 

Elena Gluhovskaya, Aleksandra Chaban

«APOLLON» I «MUSAGET»: MEZHDU BOR’BOJ I KOMPROMISSOM (K ISTORII ODNOGO PIS’MA)

 

The article reconstructs the relationship between two publishing houses, «Apollo» and «Musagetes», on the base of the unpublished E. Medtner’s letter to E. Znosko-Borovsky. There is made a conclusion about ambiguous position of the «Apollo» in the perception of contemporaries and about the publishing particularity in the 1910th.

Key words: russian literature of the 1910th of the 20th century, The Silver age, simbolism, akmeism, publishing, «Apollo», «Musagetes», E. Medtner, E. Znosko-Borovsky, V. Ivanov, N. Gumilev.

 

 

Aleksej Dubovcev

K PROBLEME ZHANRA «ABISSINSKIH PESEN» N. S. GUMILEVA

 

This article analyzes the «Abyssinian songs» of N. S. Gumilev which is created in the genre of kyne. In connection with genre context interpretation of the cycle is organized on two levels: realistic and allegorical.

Key words: The Silver Age, acmeizm, N. Gumilev, kyne, allegory, poetic cycle.

 

 

 

Vsevolod Zel’chenko

K STOLETIYU ODNOGO RUKOPOZHATIYA

 

This article offers a critical revision of the ubiquitous assumption of a genetic link existing between the poems The Monkey (1919) by Vladislav Khodasevich and With a Monkey (1907) by Ivan Bunin. The close inspection of  literary and biographical sources shows that a homeless Balkan (usually a Serb) with a monkey and a tambourine (or a street organ), begging his way through the summer houses, was a person so common to the turn-of-the-century Russia, that any reference to Bunin’s poem was needless both for Khodasevich and his audience. If the two texts show any affinity, it was prompted by life, not literature.

Key words: Vladislav Khodasevich (Chodasevič, Xodasevič), The Monkey, realia, Serbs in Russia at the beginning of XXth century, Russian First World War poetry

 

Aleksandr Kobrinskij

K PROBLEME LITERATURY VTOROGO RYADA (na materiale russkoj literatury XX veka)

 

Article is devoted to the analysis of the concept «second row» of literature. The use of this term, its practical and theoretical contents is investigated.

 

Key words: Second row, literature, literary process, history of literature, mass literature.