CONTENTS

V. E. Bagno. Cesar Travelled, Titus Petronius and I Followed Him from Afar (Destinations of A. Pushkin’s Imaginary Travel). P. 5

REPORTS AND RELEASES

A. S. Zabirova. Reception of the Vita of Leo of Catania in the Russian Culture: From Joseph Volotsky to the 20th Century Novels. C. 15

S. I. Nikolaev. Writers’ «Vitae» of the 18th Century: Features of the Genre. P. 26

E. S. Levshina. The Reading Practices of Young I. S. Aksakov (Based on Unpublished Family Correspondence). P. 30

E. A. Romanova, N. A. Parshukova. The Queen of Spades by A. S. Pushkin and The Magnetizer by E. T. A. Hoffmann: Literary Allusions, Reminiscences, Parallels. P. 40

E. M. Filippova. New Age Philosophy in Prose and Epistolary Legacy of I. A. Goncharov. P. 50

N. V. Kalinina. I. A. Goncharov, Anonymous (Golos Newspaper Feuilletons). P. 63

S. V. Savinkov. Eugene Onegin in Literature and Criticism of the Second Half of the 19th Century: Ideological Transformations and Plot Emulations. P. 80

A. V. Vdovin, A. A. Ageeva. Towards the History of the Folk Magazines in the Late 1850s: Folk Reading by G. D. Shcherbachyov and A. A. Oblonskiy (Based on Archival Sources). P. 89

K. A. Barsht, A. P. Dmitriev. Six Pages from F. M. Dostoyevsky’s Notebook (1864–1867). P. 100

The Turgenev Brothers and the Sokovnin Sisters. The Epilogue of a Relationship: A. M. Pavlova (Sokovnina)’s Letters to N. I. Turgenev (Introduction, Editing and Commentary by N. A. Khokhlova). P. 110

A. A. Fet’s Unknown Letters to K. N. Leontiev (1884–1891) (Editing by T. I. Knasnoborod’ko, Introduction and Commentary by N. P. Generalova, V. A. Lukina) (Final Part). P. 122

Yu. I. Aykhenvald’s Letters to V. Ya. Bryusov (1900–1907) (Introduction, Editing and Commentary by I. V. Kochergina). P. 150

E. V. Khmyrova. Paranoia Primaria: Dynamics of Ardal’on Borisovich Peredonov’s Disease in the Light of the Experimental Method. P. 162

Vladimir Gippius. Hello to the Poet (Introduction, Editing and Commentary by G. V. Petrova). P. 171

L. G. Panova (USA). The «Petersburg Text» from the Mouth of «Hasbeen»: «Dekabr’ Morozit v Nebe Rozovom…» by M. A. Kuzmin. P. 183

D. I. Ivanov, D. L. Lakerbai. A «Post-Nietzschean» Personality in the Night Sea: I. A. Bunin and J. A. Brodsky’s Characters on the Rendezvous with the «Existential Abyss». P. 208

P. R. Zaborov. The History of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature Relations. P. 223

Liu Zhiquiang (China). Literary Parody and Stylization in the Poetic Legacy of Translator and Sinologist L. E. Cherkassky. P. 227

M. A. Kucherskaya. Joseph Brodsky and Carl Proffer: The Story of an Editor’s Revision. P. 234

REVIEWS

M. V. Mikhailova. Media Criticism as an Object of Literary Studies. P. 244

T. V. Igosheva. A «Chorus» of Philological Reflections (New Insights on Vyacheslav Ivanov). P. 246

А. M. Gracheva. A Brief Course on the History of Prague Emigrees in 1920s–1930s. P. 249

NEWSREEL

E. R. Obatnina. 28th Academic Readings of the Manuscript Department, Pushkin House. P. 252

S. V. Denisenko. All the Mirages of the World: Illusions in Literature and Art Twelfth April International Interdisciplinary Conference. P. 255

A. A. Kobrinskii. Daniil Kharms: Poetics, History, Contexts International Research Conference. P. 259

N. A. Prozorova. Russian Literature in the Soviet Era Eighth Research Seminar. P. 263

E. D. Konusova. XLIX Malyshev Readings. P. 264

In Memoriam Sergei Alexandrovich Fomichev. P. 270

Summaries. P. 272