CONTENTS

Alexander Zholkovsky (USA). Two Love(less) Songs by Mark Freydkin (Baby Va and Amour Perdu). P. 5

HISTORY OF A POEM

N. L. Dmitrieva. A Knight and a Holy Maiden (How «There Once Lived a Poor Knight», by A. S. Pushkin was Conceived). P. 27

S. B. Fedotova. «There Once Lived a Poor Knight» (History of Creation). P. 34

REMIZOVIANA

E. R. Obatnina. A New Outlook on the Old Mystifications: German, Turk and Bear in A. M. Remizov’s Autobiographical Short Stories. P. 48

А. M. Gracheva. A. M. Remizov’s Unknown Essays of 1956–1957: <Under the Lucky Star: N. A. Berdyaev> and <V. I. Lebedev>. P. 77

REPORTS AND RELEASES

Marzieh Yahyapour (Iran), Janolah Karimi-Motahhar (Iran). Persia in Afanasy Nikitin’s Voyage beyond Three Seas. P. 87

E. E. Dmitrieva, A. S. Sholokhova. The Unsolvable Riddle of the 1835 Printed Edition of Gogol’s Mirgorod. P. 97

V. P. Trykov. Lous Léger, Popularizer of Russian Literature in France. P. 107

А. A. Fet’s Unknown Letters to K. N. Leontiev (1884–1891) (Editing by T. I. Krasnoborod’ko; Introduction and Commentary by N. P. Generalova and V. A. Lukina). P. 113

«You are a Famous Critic, I am an Emerging Novelist» (Anna Mar’s Letters to A. A. Izmailov, 1910–1914) (Introduction, Editing and Commentary by E. C. Alexandrova). P. 141

T. V. Misnikevich. Revised vs. Supplemented: Towards the Publishing History of the Second Edition of Paul Verlaine’s Translations by F. K. Sologub. P. 155

A. Iu. Solovev. «All our Excellent Plans… Would Go to Hell»: Aborted D. I. Fonvizin Collected Works at Academia Publishing House. P. 164

V. V. Filicheva. The Publishing History of F. K. Sologub’s Poems at Poet’s Library (1939). Appendix. V. N. Orlov. <Review of the Manuscript> Fyodor Sologub. Poems. Editing and Essay by O. Tsekhnovitzer. P. 180

K. M. Polivanov. Again on Vedenyapin in Doctor Zhivago by B. L. Pasternak. P. 192

T. A. Kochneva. The Aesthetics of Socialist Realism and Soviet Discourses of the Postwar Period in the Gulag Memoirs. P. 196

А. A. Mukhina. Amshey Nurenberg and Marc Chagall in Yury Trifonov’s Novella Another Life. P 207

E. S. Abelyuk. Approaches to Textual Analysis and Authorship Problem in the Play Ten Days that Shook the World. P. 217

G. N. Beliak. Interface as the Hermeneutical Space. P. 226

NOTES

O. E. Osovskii, S. A. Dubrovskaia. Unknown Letter and Poem by N. M. Bakhtin. P. 235

N. D. Kochetkova. The Life of Samuel Johnson by J. Boswell as Translated by Yu. D. Levin. P. 237

REVIEWS

T. G. Ivanova. Documentary Biography of Mark K. Azadovsky. P. 240

P. R. Zaborov. A Valuable Collection of Archival Data on the History of Russo-Italian Social and Cultural Ties. P. 244

N. V. Kalinina. A New Book on A. V. Druzhinin. P. 247

E. N. Penskaya. A Manuscript Archive Between the Digit and the Handwritting. P. 249

NEWSREEL

E. V. Kochneva. Museum and Iconography Seminar of the Pushkin House in 2023 and 2024. P. 252

A. D. Babushkin, E. I. Vozhik. Home Readings: To the History of Minor Things: Inconspicuous, Occasional, Peripheral in Russian Literature Second International Youth Conference. P. 256

S. S. Safronova. Social Realism Postmortem (Late-Period Soviet Esthetics) 2024 Research Conference. P. 260

S. A. Semiachko. Thirteenth Hagiographic Seminar. P. 264

N. Iu. Alekseeva. Vladimir P. Stepanov: The Portrait of a Scholar. Honoring the 90th Anniversary. P. 267

I. V. Fedorova. Olga A. Belobrova, Researcher of the Russian Pilgrims’ Literature. Honoring the 100th Anniversary. P. 270

Index of Contributions to Russkaya Literatura, 2025. P. 276

Summaries. P. 283