The article examines the basic features of B. Okudzhava’s poetics, called sentimental grotesque. It shows that his figurative and lexical structure stems from the opposition of high and low: “man – God”, “household – sacred”, “insect man”. A stable means of creating grotesque images, in addition to the collision of different layers of vocabulary, is the environment of “high” images with household details, the most important of which is worn clothes, often named with the help of diminutives. The poems in which some leitmotivs of Okudzhava’s poetry first appeared are established. The conclusion done,that the sentimental grotesque is a feature of building an image of the world in Okudzhava lyrics of the second half of the 1950s and 1960s.

The article attempts to systematize the material related to the reception of Fedor M. Dostoevsky’s works by foreign speakers, examines reinterpretations, secondary texts of various types devoted to the writer’s creative works – philological studies, feature films, TV series, theatrical productions, comics, computer games, textbooks of the Russian language for foreigners, the results of pilot surveys, etc. Theoretical substantiations of the problem of understanding and perception of a literary text by a bearer of a different culture are given, the key concepts of which are “the presumption of incomplete understanding” and “the presumption of a negative assessment”. In order to generalize the material the term “interpretative constant” is introduced. Interpretative constants are gene­ralized statements expressed in a concise form such as “The study of a man is the main theme of Dostoevsky’s works”; “God-seeking is the main theme of his works”; “The main force of evil is a woman”; “He loved death, suffering more than life”; “Suffering in the Russian world unites people”; “All the actions of the heroes are conditioned by libido”, etc. Generally, the method of identifying the interpretative constants and their interpretation is indicated. Interpretative constants have the predictive effect, their classification allows us to determine possible trends in the development of Dostoevistics, both foreign and domestic. It is assumed that the specification of the material presented in the publication will be carried out in the subsequent articles of the cycle.

The given article dwells on the issue lithographic books edition in Eastern countries, which reached its peak referring to the second half of the 18th century. It is noted that the edition of book was introduced in the relevant area centuries ago, but it was not as popular as books printed on stone. Therefore, it is necessary to attract many personalities’ contribution into the relevant field, namely for the progress of publishing activities. One of these personalities is Hoji Siddiqkhojai Khujandi who was a book merchant as one of the first people traveled to different regions of Shibhi Kara and Central Asia and published various books and brought them to Central Asia.

The article is devoted to the study of the hardest for interpretation N.V. Gogol’s works the “St. Petersburg” story “Notes of a Madman.” The diary of a hero going crazy presents the combination of the elements of madness, comedy, romantic alogism, authorial irony, satire and high tragic pathos that gives this work the character of an artistic riddle, the solution of which is possible only with the help of a consistent integrated approach. Numerous reminiscences in the work of images from world literature, contemporary journalism and artistic literature are examined in detail. The long-term observations of researchers on the poetics of Gogol’s story are summarized. A connection is established between “Notes of a Madman” and the poem “Dead Souls” and “Reflections on the Divine Liturgy.” Gogol’s polemic with European romanticism developed in this work is explored in detail. Gogol contrasts the playful “spirituality” of the romantics, which leaves a person to the mercy of imagination and subjective opinions, with a truly spiritual understanding of life, based on the Holy Scriptures and church tradition. The article is a continuation, based on new material, of a research work begun in 2022 – “German romantic V.G. Wackenroder and the 20th century: artistic foresight N.V. Gogol” (published in the collection of the IWL RAS “Literary process in Russia in the 18th–19th centuries. Secular and spiritual literature”). An attempt has been made to present a holistic concept of the work and a wide range of fruitful research thoughts in its interpretation. The work consists of fifteen sections: 1. Problems of interpretation of the story; 2. Background and history of the creation of “Notes of a Madman”; 3. “Soulful City” “Notes...”; 4. Idleness, bribery, threat of “scolding”; 5. Diktat of fashion, red tape; 6. Neglect of spiritual growth; 7. Vanity and the possibility of repentance; 8. From “Notes of a Madman” to “Dead Souls” and “Reflections on the Divine Liturgy”; 9. Pseudoculture; 10. “Donquixoticism”; 11. Cervantes and Ariosto; 12. The circle of romanticism: poetry, politics, philosophy, mysticism; 13. “Notes of a Madman” and romantic madness; 14. Poprishchin and music; 15. “Popular theology”. Eleven of the fifteen sections are presented in this publication. The continuation of the article and the list of references will be published in the next issue of the journal.

The article dwells on the issue concerned word-building potential and morphological peculiarities of the suffix -ča in modern Tajik literary language on the example of “A Brief Word-Building Dictionary of Tajik Literary Language” (1983) [4] “Ghulomon” by S. Aini (2019) [1]. These works are considered to be one of the priceless and fundamental sources contained a numerous literary facts and evidences belonging to modern Tajik literary language. It is concluded that the relevant word-building element is considered to be one of productive ones contributed into new nouns derivation.

The article dwells on the issue concerned with the study of Bakron’s linguistic view on “Jahon-Name”. It is underscored that the relevant geographical production is considered to be one of the most important works. It is determined that the word stock of “Jahon-Name” includes the following lexicons denoting: locality, natural phenomena, elements, social areas, notions of quantity, period and seasons, person, occupation, profession, skill, animals, somatisms, scientifico-professional terms, minerals, agricultural, food and beverage, notions dealing with religion and various objects. Adducing the result of an analysis beset with the theme explored one can come to the conclusion that “Jahan-Name” refers to geographical literature and its author makes an endeavor to edit the language; to use public vocabulary; to indicate correct pronunci­ation and spelling of words; to fix the meaning of various lexical elements; to determine linguistic belonging of words; to make obvious and hidden errors; to state hypotheses concerning the origin of names; to point out differences in the names of localities in written and colloquial form... – all this is considered to be peculiarities of the language of the relevant work.

The article deals with the peculiarities of using the term “state” in the twentieth century in French and other European languages, especially Romance languages, in comparison with Russian. Different approaches to translating this term from Russian into European languages are considered, depending on the political content and context. Various options are proposed to identify the principles of translation of related terms from lexical and political discourse.

The article deals with the principles, the principles, structure and content of the Czech scientific magazine “Novaja rusistika” (“Nová rusistika”) (2008– .), devoted to topical issues of Russian literature. As a successor to the magazine “Československá rusistika”, “Novaja rusistika” (editor-in-chief Prof. Ivo Pospišil, Brno) covers issues rele­vant to Russian studies of the 21st century in line with areal philology, considering Russian studies in the context of Slavic and Central European studies.

The article discusses reviews Yu.I. Eikhenwald concerning the literature of the metropolia, which weekly were published in the Berlin newspaper “Rul”. It is concluded that Aikhenvald closely followed the Soviet literature, being scrutinized on the most striking, talented, and interesting works such writers, for example, as M. Bulgakov, L. Leonov and M. Prishvin.​

The paper deals with the Catalan author Salvador Espriu (1913–1985), who interpreted ancient myths in his works “Phaedra”, “Antigone” and “The Story of Esther” from a new point of view. The subject of the study was the analysis of the story “Phaedra”, the dramas “Antigone” and “The Story of Esther”, as a result of which we determine how the mytho­logical heritage of the past was transformed and which models of myth transformation were used by Salvador Espriu in these texts. The work also examines the incorporation of ancient and Old Testament myths into the historical and political context of the 30–40s of the twentieth century.

The article analyzes the concept of house in three 1950-s novels by H. Böll: “And Never Said a Word”, “The Unguarded House; Tomorrow and Yesterday” and “Billiards at half past nine”. Special attention is paid to the problems of space exploration and the “chaos-order” dichotomy.