The article introduces into scientific circulation the latest literary material – the novel by A. Markina “The Dollhouse” (2023), where in the atmosphere of “magical realism”, at the junction of prose and poetry, a criminal story and a socio-psychological drama merge. The main attention is paid to the image of the central character – an outstanding provincial intellectual and university teacher, who, on the verge of madness, was inspired by the avant-garde project of physical “restoration” of deceased children, modeling an artificial, “doll” social environment, and in literary terms, partly became a “follower” of Voshchev from A. Platonov’s “The Foundation Pit”.

The article focuses on the lyrics of the 1990s written by the contemporary Czech poet J.H. Krchovský (b. 1960, real name – Jiří Hašek) and examines the category of the lyrical subject, which manifests the existential uncertainty experienced by the author in the conditions of changes taking place in Czechoslovakia (later the Czech Republic) after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The system of hypostases of the lyrical subject is determined by the Baroque opposition of ‘soul without body’ (‘persona non grata’) to ‘body without soul’ (different marginal individuals), which is attempted to be overcome by the hypostase of the ‘modern’ Jesus Christ who breaks the mirror, a neo-romantic symbol of the separation of two worlds, and by the neo-decadent poet who combines the author-creator (Jiří Hašek) and the intra-textual author (J.H. Krchovský, the ‘cemetery’ poet). The complex subject structure of Krchovský’s social-critical poetry (author-creator – intra-textual author – lyrical subject – his hypostases) allows one to speak of Krchovský’s study of the depths of the human soul, which represents the concept of a mini-universe in the mind of a single individual, that is quite representative for the Czech poetry of the 1990s.

Religious and educational literature for children is an interesting example of how different functional styles and genres can coexist within the same text. This article focuses on the Polish manual “Modlę się do Ciebie”, written by M. Maliński, for primary school students. The purpose of the work, its functions, and the author’s intentions are discussed. The features of the style of the text are also explored – the use of colloquial language and diminutives, while still maintaining a high style vocabulary, including religious terms, the abundance of means of artistic expression. The names and nominations of God and saints mentioned in the work are analyzed, including their frequency and stylistic and connotative coloring.

The given article dwells on issues beset with the comparative analysis of monosubjective coordinative compound sentences in Tajik and English. It is noted that the basis for such an approach is the description of various actions performed by one subject. Each of such predicates provides a description of a separate segment of the extralinguistic situation. Therefore, in sentences of this type, we should talk about several predicative features of mono-subjective ones.

The given article dwells on the scope of suffixes in the formation of poly-semantic verbs in Tajik literary language referring to the 11th century. It is noted that a group of verbs formed by means of suffixes are used with several semantic nuances. In conformity with the author’s opinion one can assert that such lexical units express from two to thirteen meanings. Of course, the number of such verbs with all meanings is not identical: the number of verbs used in two meanings is greater, but words used in thirteen meanings are lesser.

The article dwells on some peculiarities of Tajik lexicon of “Muqaddimat-ul-adab” by Zamakhshari being one of the Arabic-Persian bilingual dictionaries, in which Tajik lexicon is occurred in a special meaning and freshness ones. It is noted that the majority of the Tajik words those ones included into the dictionary are still preserved in various dialects of modern Tajik language, and from this point of view, on the one hand, this indicates the author’s awareness of the live language of the people, and on the other hand, the value of the relevant dictionary is determined by issues related to histori­cal dialectology and formation of the live language of the people at the author’s time.

The article dwells on comparative analysis of morphological peculiarities and word-building potentiality of the prefix ham- in Tajik literary language referring to the 18th and 20th centuries. The factological material is the historical works and in order to conduct the comparative analysis beset with the topic under considerdation, the author used “Tukhfat-ul-khoni” (18th century), “The History of Manghit Emirs of Bukhara. Muqanna’s Rebellion”, “The History of Intellectual Revolution in Bukhara” (20th century).
It is concluded that the adduced analysis beset with lexical possibilities of the noun forming prefix ham- in the language of the period in question shows that the range of connection of these lexical elements with different lexical units is more widely-sued, they could be not only nouns, but parts of speech, especially adjectives, infinitive and verbs are added to create new derived words either.

The mutual reception between the personal and collective identity in Ante Popovski’s poetry, has been emphasized by many literary scholars of Ante’s work and contemporary Macedonian poetry, and in that context in the place of Popovski in the Macedonian poetic canon. “...There is a less mystified image of Macedonia”, says Katica Kulavkova, “in which certain mental and emotional predispositions of Ante are mirrored: to sing movingly, psalmically, sublimely and elliptically, to make the song / poem a vow, solemn oath”. Like in “Disobedience” (“Непокор”, 1964). Like in “Blue poem” (“Сина песна”, 1984). For Ala Sesken, “Ante Popovski (like Blaze Koneski) has an exceptional faith in the possibilities of the Macedonian language and its inexhaustible lexi­cal and expressive treasure”. “In the works and essays, of both Macedonian top poets, a task is realized, already formulated by Krste Misirkov in the book ‘On Macedonian Matters’ (‘За македонсцките работи’, 1903), where its written that it’s the intelligence duty to fight for the official recognition of its people and protect their interests”. This paper deals with reading two of his collections on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the collection “Disobedience” (1964) and 40 years of the collection “Blue poem” (1984).

The purpose of this article is to analyse the parameters of the costume code presented in the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” written by the English poet and writer O. Wilde. The author tries to analyse different aspects of ways how to render features of Victorian dress when translating the novel into Russian. O. Wilde portrays representatives of different social classes of English society at the end of the 19th century. Thus, the characters’ costumes are considered an important detail specifically used for their characterisation. Ten Russian translations of the novel are made in different cultural and historical epochs. There are four basic types of costume codes, namely modern costume, historical costume, theatrical costume, and religious costume. The article focuses on the male costume code in fashion contemporary to the author. Translators do not always follow the costume code. As a result, the images of characters may be misleading for readers belonging to the target language and culture.

This article deals with the question of the sources of the chapter “O liczbie a wywodzie Sybil” of M. Bielski’s chronicle, which has not yet been fully resolved. In the course of the research, we managed to identify some of them: Lactantius “Divinae institutiones”, F. Barbieri “Sibyllarum de Christo vaticinia, ex vetustiss, codice descripta”, St. Augustine “De civitate Dei”, chapter “De vita beata”. We have also made a comparative analysis of two Church Slavonic translations of this chapter, belonging to N. Spafarius and an unknown author, which also reveal continuity; most likely, N. Spafarius took the Polish text as the basis of his work, despite the fact that he did not mention it anywhere in the text.

The article raises the question of the meaning and functions of the song refrain and its connection the main verses. As a result of the analysis of couplet songs from the movie “June 31” (words by R. Kazakova, L. Derbenev, Yu. Entin) we came to the conclusion that the refrain, as a recurring element of the song, performs several functions: reveals the inner world of the lyrical hero, his values, emotions; expresses the main idea of the work; concisely expresses the plot. The refrain is combined with verses, most often with the principle of “part – whole”, sometimes with oppositions. There are differences depending on the pathos of the songs: the refrains of lyrical songs differ in semantic and functional diversity.

The article deals with the image of Kitovras in Russian literary works and art, considering the influence of the Byzantine and Western European traditions on it. The article shows the variation of Kitovras image from ideas about wise architects to symbols of the fight against vice. The analysis reveals the adaptation and transformation of European mythological motifs in Russian culture.

The material centers on the bright personality of the jubileer, who entered the university at the beginning of the Khrushchev thaw, and became a witness and participant in the more than half-century existence of the philological faculty.

October 16, 2024, the Department of Didactic Linguistics and Theory of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language of the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University held an anniversary seminar “The Creative Heritage of M.V. Lomonosov in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language”, dedicated to the 270th anniversary of Moscow University. The reports presented at the seminar discussed the ideas of M.V. Lomonosov, relevant for the development of linguistic foundations and methods of teaching Russian to a foreign language audience, and also presented the results of research in the development of these ideas.