CONTENTS

S. L. Fokin. Marcel Proust on L. N. Tolstoy: Pro et Contra. P. 5-14

CENTENARY OF V. Ya. BRIUSOV’S DEATH

A. V. Lavrov. Valery Briusov in the Hermes Journal (Letters to A. I. Malein). P. 15-60

L. G. Panova (USA). Following up on Pushkin: Valery Briusov and the Egyptian Nights. P. 61-114

HONORINING THE 135th ANNIVERSARY OF A. A. AKHMATOVA

D. P. Iakubovich’s Unpublished Review of A. A. Akhmatova’s Collection The Rosary (Introduction, Editing and Commentaries by Ia. V. Slepkov and V. V. Turchanenko). P. 115-128

R. D. Timenchik (Israel). A. A. Akhmatova’s Notebooks: The Characters. P. 128-151

Three Story Lines from A. A. Akhmatova’s Correspondence (Published by N. I. Kraineva). P. 152-174

L. G. Kikhney. Poem without a Hero by A. A. Akhmatova: Towards the Mechanisms of Hypertext Creation. P. 174-190

G. P. Mikhailova (Lithuania). Semantics and Poetics of Two Antiquity Diptychs by A. A. Akhmatova: Shakespeare and Sophocles, Shakespeare and Horace. P. 190-201

REPORTS AND RELEASES

A. I. Lyubzhin. M. M. Kheraskov’s Rossiada and J. Chapelain’s Poem La Pucelle ou La France Délivrée. P. 202-211

N. Yu. Avetyan. V. A. and E. E. Zhukovsky: New Iconographic Materials. P. 211-218

N. P. Generalova. To the History of a Turgenev Preface (an Unknown Letter by Charles Edmond to I. S. Turgenev). P. 218-224

Josef Dohnal (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic), S. N. Cherepanova (Slovak Republic). «Culture of Cliches» in Chekhov’s Early Prose. P. 224-232

A. A. Kobrinskii. Enigmatic Text Poetics in the Poem «The Duel» by N. A. Zabolotsky. P. 233-242

P. A. Druzhinin. A. P. Platonov and Censorship (a Repressed 1939 Publication in the Oktyabr). Appendix. <Glavlit’s Objections to A. P. Platonov’s Story>. P. 242-248

А. M. Remizov. Dostoevsky’s Secret Thought from his Reminiscences of a Convict. A BAD PREDICAMENT (Introduction, Editing and Commentaries by A. M. Gracheva). P. 248-266

REVIEWS

T. G. Ivanova. A Book about the Pilgrims. P. 267-270

D. M. Bulanin. The Legacy of Maxim the Greek as Mastered by the Russian Writing: The Earliest Attempts. P. 270-272

A. S. Bodrova. Russian Literature and the Scenarios of Power During the Reign of Alexander I and Nicholas I. P. 272-275

T. V. Misnikevich. New Insights Concerning the History of the Literary Groups of the Silver Age. P. 275-277

L. V. Khachaturian. The Dynamics of the Novel: Quiet Flows the Don in the Creative Legacy of M. A. Sholokhov. P. 277-279

NEWSREEL

O. A. Kuznetsova. A. N. Ostrovsky — Texts and Cultural Contexts: To the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of the Playwright Research Conference. P. 280-283

O. A. Lindeberg. In Memory of Yuri Konstantinovich Gerasimov, Doctor of Art History (1923–2003). Honoring the Centenary of his Birth Research Conference. P. 283-286

E. I. Vozhik, S. D. Popov. Home Readings: Trajectories of (Non-)Classical Knowledge about Russian Literature First International Youth Conference. P. 286-292

E. K. Alexandrova. Critics and Writers: Shaping a Literary Reputation in the Late 19th — Early 20th Century Fifth International Research Conference. P. 292-294

I. V. Arshinova. Literary Reputations in the Process of Intercultural Interaction International Research Conference. P. 294-297

A. Yu. Veselova, A. Iu. Solovev. Fifth Young Researchers’ Readings on the Russian Literature of the 18th Century. P. 297-300

O. L. Dovgy. Second Bogomolov Readings International Research Conference. P. 300-305

From the Editors. P. 305

Summaries. P. 306-347