The plot with which we will occupy the reader’s attention goes back chronologically to the mid-20s of the 19th century, when there was still no talk of Lermo...

“Boyarin Orsha” has been little studied, although, without a doubt, it is one of Lermontov’s best poems. In this study, however, we cannot study it monograph...

The problem indicated in the title of this article, of course, can only be outlined in it, because it is very extensive and concerns the most fundamental fou...

In the history of the “Russian Chenier”, Lermontov’s work represents a special and very unique page.

For two, or even three decades, Karamzin’s “Letters...” were a school of feelings for Russian readers, and for writers a model of psychological prose. We can...

In 1910, the French Slavist E. Duchesne published an extensive work in Paris entitled “Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. Life and creativity.” In the preface, Duc...

The hypothesis that I would like to share with the reader here may seem unlikely - and not because a poem by an almost unknown and inexperienced author is in...

Countless and sometimes elusive threads connected Lermontov’s work with Pushkin’s legacy. At one time, these connections were defined in one word: “influence...

The Dumas of K. F. Ryleev belong to the central and most studied phenomena in civil poetry of the 1820s. Their comprehensive textual, historical and literary...

“...It seems to me that it’s time to remove the halo of some kind of holiness, martyrdom and greatness from the figure of Gorbachev. This is an ordinary part...

Anton Antonovich Delvig was one of the most remarkable figures in Russian literature of the Pushkin era. Possessing neither the genius of Pushkin, nor the ou...