The article deals with reminiscence as the organizing principle of the great lyric-epic canvas in the legacy of N. Otsup. The global picture of the tragic situation of the individual in the circumstances of the twentieth century is recreated by the author through dialogue with many poets and thinkers of different countries and centuries, old Testament and the gospel prophets and saints, the heroes of Greek mythology and Russian folklore. Pushkin, Tyutchev, and Blok are symbolic names to the author: Pushkin for him is a “mind without evil”, Tyutchev is a seer of the mysteries of the Russian soul, Blok is the singer of the Eternal Femininity who overcame the poison of irony, a close contemporary (“I supported Blok’s coffin with a shoulder”). “Diary in verse” described the fate and spiritual transformation of a man, doomed to wander, to endure captivity, to lose home, be aware of the origins of evil, to defeat it with Christian love. Due to the direct and indirect allusions, the background of the world culture is included by the poet into the space of the soul of an autobiographical character.

The article considers the motives of health / illness in the work of N. Karamzin in the light of artistic anthropology, epistemology and anthology of the writer; the typology of genetic sources of this motive and ways of its disclosing in Karamzin’s works are presented. On the example of the poems, the novel “Eugene and Julia”, “Letters of a Russian Traveler” conclusions are made about the specifics of the writer’s attitude to a disease as a manifestation of the unpredictability of life, impotence of a human in the fight against unknowable metaphysical laws of the universe and the need to accept them, which is interpreted in artistic thinking of Karamzin as a pledge of true mental health of a person. The conclusions are also made about the importance of health and disease motives (from regulatory traditionalist to the individual human creative concepts) in the literature abroad in 18-19th centuries.

The article considers a picaresque motive in the Angry Young Men’s literature on the basis of novels “Lucky Jim” by Kingsley Amis and “A start in life” by Alan Sillitoe. Particular attention is paid to comparing the typical features of the picaresque character with his modern modification, and to the ways of representation of traditional piсaresque plots: ways/roads, wealth/poverty, profitable marriage. Such analysis allows the author to come to the conclusion that picaresque motive in the Angry young men’s literature acquired a new sound mainly due to the synthesis of “road novel” and “career novel”. A lot of Angry young men’s novels had an entertaining base, but it revealed the main problems of the young British generation at 1950-60s.

The article presents the idea that the Creator in Karamzin’s poetry consistently marks the opposition of the sentimentalist classical truth of “feeling” / enlightening truth of the “reason” / “truth” and then their reunification on a new basis. The tools of such reunion are Nature (pantheistical embodying the Creator) and Poetry, that reveals God in Nature to people. The flight of the hero into the world of Nature makes her homeless, and the other world - unreliable. The divine unity of nature and civilization is proved “from the contrary”.

The article presents the idea that N. Karamzin in the “History of the Russian state” and in his other writings puts a thing, in particular, clothing of a person in direct connection with an idea. He describes in detail the style and individual elements of the clothes of historical figures and characters of his works, drawing a connection between appearance and the internal state of an individual. For Karamzin clothing is a reflection of the historical time, the social status of a person, it is connected with his national-cultural identity and becomes a sign of relationship to the spiritual world, a sign of personal viability of its owner.

The article considers transformations of the genre of historical narrative in literary works, that are representative of various aesthetic systems - folklore (Kirsha Danilov’s Collection), classical aesthetics (Vol. 9 of N. Karamzin’s «History of the Russian State»), and postclassical aesthetics (A. Ivanov’s novel «Tobol. Many are called») - in relation to the image and the actions of Ermak, the conqueror of Siberia, and his crew. By investigating the key motivation to recover the honor, the common features and differences in approaches to treating historical material were revealed, and the logic of development of the historical narrative genre as the movement from a story about an event to continuation of the event in a new context, new circumstances, and in destinies of people of a different era, was established.

This article examines the forms and ways of reception of the personality of the American poet and novelist George Sterling in the artistic consciousness of the famous writer Jack London. The analysis of the nature of the creative dialogue between writers was carried out on the material the most representative London’s works and his epistolary heritage. In the article, the attention is paid to the peculiarities of autobiographical discourse, the intertextual relation in the texts. The study opens up new aspects in studying the creative laboratory of a famous American writer.

The article is devoted to views of V. Veresaev on the outcome of the revolution of 1917. Based on the analysis of the content of the novel “At the dead end”, devoted to the description of the civil war in Crimea, and matching it with the works of important Russian writers of the studied period, an attempt is made to represent the opinion of V. Veresaev about the causes and consequences of the coup. We emphasize the complexity and ambiguity of attitudes of the Russian intelligentsia to the revolution, including V. Veresaev.

The article deals with the history of Russian camp prose translation into English. The author examines the formation and the development of Russian camp prose as a separate theme of the Russian literature of the 20th century and determines the main stages of Russian camp literature reception in English: the initial (1926-1962), the main (1963-1989) and the latest (since 1990s till present days). The author also analyzes the characteristic features of the selected stages.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of the attitude of a person to the Civil War and drama caused by the discrepancy between moral ideals and historical realities. In the works of M. Bulgakov, this was reflected in the story “The Red Crown”. The same ideological and moral message has the story of L. Andreev “The Red laughter”. Both writers study the state of the human soul under the influence of mortal danger and guilt for the ongoing bloodshed. Later in the play “The Run” Bulgakov showed the moral torment of a general, who realized his guilt for the evil he caused to people. Through comparative analysis of stories and plays by the author of the article, a conclusion is drawn about the attitude of the two Russian writers to the destructive consequences of the war.

The article is devoted to the poetic dialogue of I. Kozlov with the artists of his time - Mikhail and Matvey Vielgorsky, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Mikhail Glinka. Their creative communication often took place in the house of the blind poet: to support I. Kozlov in a difficult period of illness, to comfort and cheer him, many musicians performed their works for him. The poet valued immensely those who filled his house with the magic sounds of music, romances, reading of works. They brought into his life what he had been deprived of by illness. Their speeches, dedicated exclusively to him, the blind poet, touched the heart of I. Kozlov, inspired him to create his own works. He was grateful to them and transferred his gratitude to the creation of verse messages addressed to those who became the saving link in the tragic chain of his life.

The article deals with the features of the creolized texts by means of which the content and the specifics of the functioning of a concept nature in the textbook on Russian as a foreign language is presented. The role of the creolized texts as means of disclosure of this concept is analyzed. Described are the main theme groups within which the concept nature is presented in the educational publication. The following research methods were used: comparative method, observation, methods of analysis and synthesis.

The article presents problems of translating proper names in literary texts on the material of French translations of I. Turgenev’s cycle “The Hunting Sketches” in 19-20th centuries. The comparative-contrastive analysis of texts shows that the essence of a translation problem comes down to maintaining the meaning of the internal form of an original proper name when translating. The transfer of names in I. Turgenev’s texts into French is complicated by the fact that names in the cycle “The Hunting Sketches” are an important component in the author’s system of representation of the Russian national character.

This article demonstrates different aspects identified in the structure of the evaluation category. The generalized characteristic of scientific research on evaluation semantics is given. In this paper, the evaluative meaning is considered as a part of the connotative side of language unit’s semantics. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the functioning of the evaluative component of connotative meaning in a poetic text, the author suggests an approach to determine the structural elements and characteristics of the evaluative meaning. The article supports the idea that a certain understanding of the structure of the semantic category cannot be universal and must be adapted in accordance with the aims of the research.

The article considers a literary text in the linguodidactic plan and details its functions in teaching Russian as a foreign language. In particular, the attention is focused on the development of grammatical skills of inophones based on literary texts. The language and speech exercises presented in the study are aimed at developing the skills of using the modern forms of verbs in students’ speech. The proposed system of exercises can be used in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language at the advanced level of education.

The article deals with the use of various similes as a means of expression in the structure of instrumental-subject impersonal sentences in the modern Russian language. Impersonality in such sentences is expressed in the presence of a component in the instrumental case which combines the object-instrumental and subject meanings. The semantics of such sentences is generally a spontaneous action aimed at the object, carried out using a certain instrument, thus modifying the state of the environment or a person’s physical or mental condition. The predicate simile, the simile with instrumental component, the comparative construction, and comparative clauses make it possible to add extra meanings to a sentence. The method used in the study is the structural-semantic analysis, the description of the sample sentences starts with the form and ends with the meaning.

The article is devoted to revealing the features of realization of the wind image in the Russian lingvoculture and media texts. The article emphasizes that the image of the wind is a fragment of the language picture of the world, important for understanding the features of the conceptualization of reality. In mass media, the concept of wind, represented by lexemes wind, storm, typhoon, tornado has a sharply negative connotation, which does not always correlate with the denotative meaning of the represented lexemes and does not fully coincide with their linguistic and cultural view. This fact is due to the restructuring of the components, associated with the contextual environment and pragmatic settings of the authors of the media text: emotionally loaded and charged with connotations, the political text assumes the functioning of emotionally charged components capable of being interpreted by the addressee with a stable connotation.

The aim of the article is to study and to analyze the establishment of the majoritarian role of one of several languages operating in a common space. Basing on historical events, analyzed is the process of consolidation of the dominant role of the Russian language in the Crimean region, which is one of three states languages, along with Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar. The article supports the need for a pragmatic approach to language issues in a multilingual society. The author noted that the language policy in a multicultural society should not only be targeted at the development of the languages of numerically dominant groups of population but also to preserve the languages of national minorities on the Peninsula.

The article deals with the problem of episode and event structure in child narratives. The analysis is based on the material of 126 oral unprepared narratives, elicited by Russian native children of the age 4;7-7;6 during a series of experiments. The results prove that the narrative skills develop gradually but at the age between 5 and 6 there is a noticeable leap when children start producing adult-like narratives with complete episode structure and elaborated event descriptions.