This article offers a linguistic, cultural and cognitive analysis of the gender steretypes in the Russian language picture of the world. We analyse direct and figurative meaning of the Russian words and set expression, free combination of words of given thematic group. We analyse polysemy, metaphors, connotation of the Russian words of given thematic group, phraseology and settled similes in the Russian languages. Considerable place takes the analysis of the Russian folklore. The words of given thematic group are a part of the language picture of the world. The analysis makes a certain contribution to the reconstruction of the integrated language world picture of Russian ethnic group and also helps to find out some peculiarities of national attitude.

The article presents the research of poorly studied features of Old Russian syntax, namely the impersonal constructions usage and gerund’s development to the second predicate on material of Stephan Permsky’s hagiography (1396-1398). The text of hagiography of Stephan Permsky clearly reflects the process of gerunds becoming at the end of the 14th century a separate class of words and gerund phrase as syntactic structure different from participial phrase.

The article investigates the semantic features of the third person, which are caused by its position in relation to the communicative situation. Third person is opposed to other persons non-participant and participant of the speech act - the speaker and the addressee. The semantics of the third person is characterized by its diversity, and therefore one can distinguish a proper stand-personal (proximal) and subject-personal meanings, and each of them can manifest thematic hue values. Proximal meaning presents not only a non-participant speech, and its theme, subject-personal meaning constructively determined and is not available outside thematic.

This article analyzes the extralinguistic and linguistic features of the scientific style found in the text of a historical essay by A. Solzhenitsyn «Two Hundred Years Together». The author described in detail the linguistic features of scientific style inherent in the text of the historian: vocabulary, word formation, morphology and syntax. The author gives a specification what the academic & publicistic substyle is: subjects to write about, words usage accuracy, reliance on scientific data, and regulatory principle of language material, that make texts written in this substyle very close to academic works. Whereas treatment of the problem in terms of what meaning it has for a society and what social consequences of implementation of a scientific idea will take place, makes such writings close to the publicistic style. The work proves that A. Solzhenistyn’s essay belongs to a mixed substyle, i.e. the academic & publicistic one.

This article is devoted to the analysis of independent concepts of BODY and SOUL in G. Kotoshikhin’s work «On Russia in the reign of Alexey Mikhailovich», representing the lexeme «another world, existence». These concepts indicate the features of author’s ideology as a representative of his time, associated with the Christian understanding of the existence and essence of the man that had formed in his mind during the reign of Alexey Mikhailovich in the process of socialization as a linguistic personality.

The article is dedicated to the topic of the semantic characteristics of the emotional concept «Joy» in the novel «The Precipice» by I. Goncharov. The chosen concept is analyzed in the light of the macro concept «Human». The most frequent meanings in the structure of the lexeme «joy» which is a word-name of a concept, its semantic coordination with the other linguistic units in the text is examined on basis of the novel. The carried out analysis confirms the theory that the chosen lexeme becomes a means to reach the concept level as the author’s world structural element.

The present article contains the analysis of the concept “Soul” which is one of the most important concepts in the Russian orthodox culture. The research is based on nominative density and axiological characteristics of the concept. Nominative density aspect can be evaluated by virtue of semantic and phraseological, paroemiological, derivational and historical and etymological multiple linguistic means representing the concept. The axiological characteristics are described with the analyses of the Russian spiritual poetry of the 11-19th centuries and with the association experiment. According to the experiment results a lexical unit “light” is the most frequent reaction.

The article presents the results of language synaesthesia creation research in V. Odoevsky’s novel «Russian nights». The object of the study is the metaphorical images with a semantic component “music” in the structure. The analysis of two images leads us to expanding our conclusions about peculiarities of a synaesthesia in the novel and specifies the types of synaesthesia. Along with idea of synthesis of arts there are kinds of actual language synaesthesia: of perceptions of the elements and feelings and sensations themselves.

The article is devoted to dialect vocabulary. In it, features of the food nomenclature in dialects the Ryazan region are investigated. The research presents the ethnolinguistic description of names of ceremonial foods. The work is a continuation of the Ryazan dialects study which serves as an important material for development of system of language. During the research the author tracked etymology and ritual meaning of ceremonial dishes. Collecting a material is carried out with application of a method of field questioning. The observations and conclusions help the expansion and enrichment of ideas of the Ryazan dialects.

The article discusses problems of the organization and structure of oral speech, it reveals the aspects of influence of a profession on the speech of the person and formation of its spontaneity. Psychological signs of the spontaneous speech are defined. Factors of a ratio of the spontaneous speech with such oppositional couples, as oral and written; informal and literary speech. The conclusion is drawn that the oral spontaneous speech will be organized according to the main objective of the speaker - to be understood. The selection of means for achievement of this purpose is conducted at of subconscious and conscious level. The author also marks out that in the course of oral, direct, communication, unlike written direct one, exchange of information proceeds at once on several channels: acoustical, visual etc. that in turn causes redistribution of information load between them, and spontaneity of the speech makes its structure fragmentary, unregulated, rough.

In the parts-of-speech system in the modern Russian language predicative occupies a special position because it is a «hybrid» part of speech. The question about predicative as a notional part of speech is still controversial. Many linguists refer impersonal form of predicative to the category of state. Capacious and laconic predicative in personal and impersonal form was widely used by the poets of the Silver age for the expression of positive or negative state of mind. Impersonal form of predicative as well as personal contains the expression and assessment, which are enhanced by intensificators and graduators.

In the article, the word-formation models of suffixal verbs motivated by adjectives are grouped, systematized and analyzed on the material of the Russian and Azerbaijani languages. Semantic types of verbs, the productive and unproductive models are distinguished, supported with numbers of named units. It is emphasized that some verbs can be referred to both the first and the second types. The tables reflect the statistical figures about formation of suffixal verbs from adjectives. The examples show that verbs can be motivated by adjectives that characterize not only a person (subject), but also an action. In both languages some verbs mean negative actions, but the meaning of the motivating verb isn’t negative. It is noted that some verbs are used in the colloquial speech and literature.

The article studies the differences between cultural norms in Russia and Tunisia, and a meaningful communication of Tunisian manager with Russian tourists. We provided some examples of communication failures in non-verbal communication, basic etiquette formula of Russian culture against the background of the Tunisian one. These examples of communication failures are the most common and repeatable in everyday communication. We also provided recommendations for Tunisian tourism managers concerning communicative behavior with Russian tourist, to achieve the mutual understanding and prevention of communication failures.

The article offers an interpretation of Bulgakov’s novel by resorting to new literary parallels and analogies, in particular to the works of A. Maikov. Author’s position is linked with V. Solovyov’s religious and philosophical ideas. Master’s point of view of the Christian story is correlated with Tolstoy’s one, inherently Masonic installations on non-resistance to evil, for this purpose I. Ilin’s book «On resistance to evil by force» (1925) is drawn. One of the original interpretations belongs to Margarita’s false mercy to Infanticide Frida - this is considered as Bulgakov’s response towards the tendency of women’s abortion in the 20th century. Ultimately, the novel reads like a spiritual profile of era of godlessness.

In the article, the image of Moscow described by A. Maikov in poetry and prose «The stories of Russian history» has been analyzed. The poet considers Moscow to be a stronghold of the Orthodox faith, a cradle of Russia, a symbol of Russian history. The key concepts in uncovering the image of Moscow are «golden domes» and the Kremlin. The value of Moscow for Maikov is revealed in his texts by means of artistic expression. In the article, the poet’s letters showing his relation to the ancient capital are also cited. The article is devoted to the insufficiently explored problem in the oeuvre of A. Maikov.

The article characterizes the originality of poetic style of popular modern poet Vera Pavlova, which Pavlova herself called paradoxical word “SOSrealism.” Conciseness, the imaginary simplicity, elegance, transformation of familiar cultural phenomena, polemical dialogue with tradition and a substantial share of the sense of provocation - here is the set of techniques that gives pleasure to the reader, and saves him and the author from fears of death and life. The article is written on the material of poetry books “Seven Books” (2011) “Baby Albums: Adult poems” (2011) and journal collections of recent years.

The article considers the typological similarity of plots of «Lust» by Sainte-Beuve and «Lily in the Valley» by H. de Balzac and existing differences between novels in resolving the basic conflict, and characterization of the main characters of the narrative style, which can be explained by different ideological and philosophical and aesthetic positions of the authors. Artistic dialogue between writers fit into a landmark dispute about the development of literature, the relationship between art and life and the artistic potential of the novel genre.

This study focuses on addressing the key interpretations of V. Shukshin’s story «Stalled» (1971), represented in literary studies, film adaptations, that not only demonstrate significant diversity of perspective and a layered structure of the work, but also fit it into the context of the present. The article discusses the studies of literary critics as V. Sigov, V. Desyatov, E. Konyushenko, V. Spiridonov and the movies «Stalled» by L. Belozorovich, «This movie» by F. Kuybida «Nugget» by A. Syrenko and «I believe!» L. Bobrova. Each interpretation focuses on one of the many layers of the ideological content of the story: the everyday, political, human, historical, philosophical and religious .

The article examines the comparative aspect of modernist literary practices of the early 20th century. To demonstrate Studi on «Russian-French relations» the author presents Proust’s essay «Death comes to the Cathedrals», little known to the Russian public, and Mandelstam’s articles «Francois Villon» and «Conversation about Dante». Introduction to the text of images of architectural structures becomes fundamental to Proust, as he created «In Search of Lost Time « by analogy with a cathedral. For Mandelstam the attitude to the artist as «an architect» can be traced to the earliest publications. This coincidence in creative interests, both authors owe to a new understanding of time, which is usually associated with the name of A. Bergson. Different ways of «reification» of this time through metaphors and symbolic language of architecture constitute the main subject of the article.

The article analyzes the translation works of Igor Severyanin on the example of poetry collections of Alexis Rannit. It focuses mainly on the associative series, which are formed on the basis of images leitmotiv: geographical and cultural, audio and visual (especially color ones). The article also discusses the features of author’s neologisms that help to create the author’s style and the «recognition» of poetic language of a translator. Particular attention is paid to translator’s sensitivity when representing the inner world of the poet translated.

The paper analyzes the features of transforming the Biblical story and the folklore of the small peoples of the Far East in a case study of an analysis of Khlebnikov’s prosaic work called ‘The Story of Firebird’ in the context of the author’s moral, ethical, religious and philosophical views on a person at the age of wars and revolutions who wishes to find his place in history. The paper dwells upon the story’s antiwar pathos and traces the particular representation of reality on the characters and the tragic fate of the people. Also, the paper reveals the eschatological motifs that Khlebnikov uses to define the apocalyptic mood of the people of his time.

The article discusses the image of garden in English children’s literature of the 20th century. The analysis of poetry by Cecily Mary Barker and the novels «The Secret Garden» by Frances Burnett and «Tom’s Midnight Garden» by Philippa Pearce reveals historical and cultural trends which shaped the perception of garden as a reflection of biblical Eden. The author focuses on the concept of «Secret Garden» developed by Humphrey Carpenter. The analysis of this concept includes a number of observations on cultural connotations which traditionally accompany the image of garden in Western Europe.