The Problems of Historical Poetics

5-23

Authors: Esaulov I. A.

The article demonstrates the difference between the process of investigation and understanding in the modern humanities. The analysis of a literary text in terms of Christian tradition is an important goal of historical poetics of Russian literature. New categories of literature studies, aimed at focusing on Christian legendry in literary works, are presented in the article. Christian traditions experienced transformations, metamorphoses and pseudomorphoses that cannot be ignored while building up a new history of Russian literature.

38-47

Authors: Glariantova E. V.

The article is devoted to the research of Christian reminiscences in A. D. Kantemir's works. Such works of Kantemir’s psalm poetry as the Symphony of the Book of Psalms, paraphrases Metaphrasis Ps. 36, Metaphrasis Ps. 72, Song I Against the Godless, Song II Hope for God are used for this purpose. Images, motives and certain verses of psalms are presented in many Kantemir's works written in different years beginning with his early Symphony to the late translation of The Existence of God by Fenelon. A. D. Kantemir combined verses from the Book of Psalms with similar motives from antique authors' works.

60-65

Authors: Kuikina E. S.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the poetic novelette by V. A. Zhukovsky The Choice of the Cross (1845). The novelette is a translation of Die Kreuzschau by the German author Albert von Chamisso. The artistic image of a wanderer walking in the mountains and his devotional address to the Creator to relieve the burden of mortal sufferings is comprehended in the novel in terms of Christianity. The reference to the Gospel and to the guidance of the reverend fathers of the Church helps to understand the plot as the way to belief, determination for God, path of endeavors and sufferings. The article also focuses on the inner world of V. A. Zhukovsky who was very close to the spiritual contents of the novel.

79-85

Authors: Kozlov I. V.

The author focuses on the last large work by F. Glinka The Mysterious Drop (1861) dedicated to the matters of religion. Special features of the poetic version of the apocryphal story about the Penitent Thief are analyzed here. The conclusion is that the semantic core of the poem is the Lord's Prayer made in hexameter. This meter is used nowhere else in the polirhythmic structure of the poem. A rhymed prayer with rhythmic accents plays a special harmonizing role in the artistic concept of the universe.

97-111

Authors: Novikova A. A.

The article studies N. S. Leskov's religious and -philosophical views, the originality of the writer’s artistic attitude. The analysis of the particular nature of Leskov's works through such writings as The Sealed Angel, At the Edge of the World, Christ Visits a Muzhik, Mysterious presages, Handsome men and others, gives a chance to show how the problem of comprehension of God, that deeply touched the author, is esthetically embodied; the writer manages to stamp in the word a mystical experience of Christian faith, its spiritual nature.

120-131

Authors: Pinzhenina E. I.

The article is devoted to the interpretation of the central image of the picture of I. N. Kramskoi Christ in the Desert by the 19th-century Russian writers. The focus is on the analysis of the sketch about this painting made by I. A. Goncharov. The research leads to the conclusion about an important creative, aesthetical and worldview commonality between Goncharov and Kramskoi.

149-159

Authors: Velikoselskiy A. V.

This article provides a comparative analysis of two studies by two researchers of Dostoevsky’s creative work — Finnish slavist Oscar von Schoultz and Serbian religious thinker The Reverend Justin Popović. It focuses primarily on the system and evolution of positive and negative characters of Dostoevsky's novels in the context of faith and unbelief.

169-179

Authors: Kustovskaya M. A.

The key aspects of the system analysis of the "living life" concept in Dostoevsky’s art are presented in the article. Its genesis and evolution is studied in relation to interpretation of the "living life" concept by other authors. Thus, original understanding of the phenomenon by Dostoevsky is disclosed. It turns out, that in writer’s thesaurus this expression does not appear sporadically, but finds itself as a significant constant leitmotif and goes from work to work. The writer interprets the prevailing understanding of "living life" by bringing it to a spiritual level, linking it with the main intention of his work – the statement of the ideal "shining personality" of Christ.

191-200

Authors: Gabdullina V. I.

The Parable strategy of the author's discourse in the novel The Gambler is depicted in the motif of temptation and moral enslavement by passions of the main character, who broke with the Home. In the context of ideas of pochvennichestvo Dostoevsky's novel The Gambler is considered an artistic metaphor, enclosing the author's view on the problem of "the foreign Russians" and in the context of the wider extent – on the problem "Russia – Europe".

216-231

Authors: Karpacheva T. S.

The article examines the facts allowing to talk about the significance of personality and writings of St. Tikhon (Zadonsky) for Dostoevsky. The writer contrasted the image of St. Tikhon with the positive protagonists of modern literature. Dostoevsky used the features of St. Tikhon when creating the images of the bishop (The Obsessed), Father Zosima (The Brothers Karamazov), Makar Dolgoruky (The Adolescent). Dostoevsky's characters and the saint share joyful Easter perception of the world and people.

243-258

Authors: Bogdanova O. A.

The article investigates the search for the anthropological ideal in Russian classical literature of the 19th century and shows it on the way to obtaining "virtue" as a Christian Orthodox idea of a personality capable of talking to God, which is traditional for Russian national consciousness.

271-278

Authors: Mesheryakova N. A.

The article is devoted to the research of antiquity and Christianity in Bryusov's novel The Altar of Victory. The author reveals a series of oppositions that are not mutually exclusive but have an interpenetrating character that shows the cultural and historical concept of the author.

293-301

Authors: Dekhtyarenok A. V.

The article analyzes one of the key symbols of the novel The Resurrection of the Gods. Leonardo da Vinci by D. S. Merezhkovsky, the image of the wings. A lot of symbolic connotations of this image reveal the theme of creativity, that has a special, religious meaning in the work.

316-329

Authors: Mashkova E. E.

This article analyzes the manipulation of the sacral in the principles of Socialist Realism "production" prose of the 1920s–1930s. The spіritual atmosphere in post-revolutionary Russia is characterized as "dual faith". The author's assessments of Bolshevik doctrine's fetishist foundations, its anti-Christian nature are considered.

342-354

Authors: Skoropadskaya A. A.

B. Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago is recognized by many researchers as a Christian novel. The author defined it as 'my Christianity'. The article considers how a Christian theme and that one of nature connected with the former are revealed in Pasternak's works by means of his reference to the Gospel of John. Such symbolic images as a tree, a garden, that are meaningful for Pasternak, and concepts of love, death, and the word ascend to this Gospel in their Christian nature.

367-378

Authors: Velikanova E. A.

The article analyses evangelical motives and images in a cycle of science fiction stories In the heart of the Great Crystal by Vladislav Krapivin. The reference to the evangelical text and connection to folklore and literary elements create the modern moral maintenance of books of the writer addressed to the teenage reader.

389-407

Authors: Esaulov I. A.

In the article the author polemicizes with the ideas of formalists, which claim the existence of a law of destruction of meaning through form in the works of art. These views of the necessary deformation of the meaning are put in the historical context of destruction of the Russian tradition in the USSR. The author emphasizes two periods of the deformation of the Russian tradition in the Soviet culture and sets against this deformation the works of Russian authors in exile: Bunin, Shmelev, B. Zaytsev. The latter have depicted the conciliar (sobornaya) Russia in their creative works. In the article the Bakhtin’s concept of outsidedness ('vnenakhodimost') of the author is corrected from the Christian standpoint and the receptive mechanism of the resurrection of historical Russia is shown based on the material of Bunin’s texts.