Private military companies operate under exceptional conditions. Their image in society, the policy of states in regulating their activities, market conditions and the cost of contracts depend on two main factors: the will of a private military company and the conditions of its environment. In this study, the authors consider private military companies as a […]
Liu Jiamin. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the “One Belt and One Road” project: main areas of cooperation, problems and prospects
The article is devoted to the actual and large-scale project “One Belt and One Road”, implemented from 2013 to 2019. in Eurasia. The article reflects the main areas of cooperation between the two countries participating in the project, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The prospects for cooperation are described and the problems of the implementation of this […]
Logvinova A.A. Anonymous christian authors of agiography tradition in the “Library” of Patriarch Photius
The article discusses the translation of the codes of the famous work of Photius of Constantinople. Codes 252—258 are presented to your attention. They relate to the thematic composition of the martyrologies. As a rule, the martyrology (μαρτύρ, martyr, and λόγος word) is a collection that contains stories about martyrs who suffered for Jesus Christ […]
Isakov A.A. The fate of Palladius Rogovsky’s heritage in Russia
The article is devoted to the development of ideas about the fate of Palladius Rogovsky, the first Russian Doctor of Philosophy and theology. The heritage of Palladius for the Russian intellectual culture of the XVIII — early XIX century meant a turn to the Catholic philosophical and theological tradition. The development of the historiographical situation […]
Dronova Y.A. Sources of the “Church history” of Zacharias of Mytilene
The article is devoted to the analysis of historical sources used by Zacharias of Mytilene when compiling the “Church History”. Like his predecessors, Zacharias included a large number of documents in his work; French researcher Philip Blaudeau discovers twenty. Zacharias almost certainly had access to collections of documents and letters from Alexandria, which allowed him […]
Khoretskaya N.Yu., Kokurina I.V. The names of the canvases by Russian artists in German transliteration
This article is devoted to the problem of translating into German the names of the works of art, in particular the canvases by I. Levitan. The names of the work of art, artionyms, have a vivid national and cultural specificity, as far as their meanings go back to the culture of the native speaker, as […]
Starostenko T.E. Implicit dialogization of the Belarusian auctorial narrative of the 20th century
The article analyzes the main communicative models of the Belarusian auctorial narrative of the 20th century, determines the similarities and differences between the idiostyles of writers from different time periods based on the linguistic explication of subjective points of view. The novelty of the study lies in the expansion of the concept of dialogue at […]
Yurchuk L.A. “He was god, he was your god, Russia”: The image of Peter I in the odes of M.V. Lomonosov
Lomonosov’s work played a decisive role in shaping the myth of Peter I, which developed in Russian literature. The article deals with the image of Peter I in the poet’s odes. The author reveals the verbal-conceptual leitmotifs that form this image, which embodies the idea of an enlightened monarch. It is argued that in the […]
Philippovsky G.Yu. At the origins of Russian literature (On the period structure of Old Russian literature)
The paper is related with the actual problems of Old Russian literature, its period structure. Many of the university courses used traditionally the term “Kievan Rus X—XIII cc.” for the early Russian literature. Its clear, however, that this usage is not correct. Because since 1155 the capital of Rus’ was moved from Kiev to Wladimir-on-Klyazma. […]
Sadovnikova Y.M. Barry Unsworth's “Morality Play”: features of the structure of english postmodernism
The article attempts to consider the specifics of the English version of postmodernism on the example of Barry Unsworth’s novel “Morality Play”, published in 1995, and for the first time in Russian was published in 2005. This is a good example of a fruitful combination of two updated genres: new historical fiction and metaphysical detective. […]
Lukyanova S.M. The frenzied Theophylact. The pseudonym of A.S. Pushkin as a self-portrait
The article is devoted to the actual problem of interpretation of the func-tional masks of the artist, which allow solving specific artistic and journalistic tasks in a playful way. The object of the research is the publicist mask of A.S. Pushkin “Theophylact Kosichkin”, a comprehensive study of which demonstrates various strategies of Pushkin the writer […]
Kiseleva I.S. Paradox and black clowning in Friedrich Durrenmatt's comedy “Meteor”
The article analyzes the main features of the comic in the famous come-dy of the famous Swiss German-speaking novelist, playwright and publicist Friedrich Durrenmatt. As you know, the nature of comedy determines the genre variety of comedy. The play “Meteor” is a black comedy-farce, since its main theme is death, and for two acts the […]
Kartashkova F.I., Koroleva V.V. Ways of expressing negative emotions in the works of E. Poe and E.T.A. Hoffmann
The paper deals with verbal and non-verbal ways of expressing the emo-tional state of the characters in literary pieces of E.T.A. Hoffman and E. Poe. In the focus of attention are emotions of fear, terror, anger. They are expressed with the help of words of negative connotation, intensifying particles, interjections, comparative constructions of metaphoric nature. […]
Antsyferova O. Yu. Genre Transformations of Myth in Canongate Myth Series: Pelevin, Winterson, Atwood
The article is a promotional approach to a broader study of the correlation of myth and literature, specific to the 21st century literature. The first three books of the Canongate Myth Series published in 2005 — The Helmet of Horror by Viktor Pelevin, Weight by Jeanette Winterson and The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood — are […]