This article discusses the role of music in the context of A.F. Losev’s philosophical
prose of the 1930’s and 1940’s. Describing the key ideas of Losev’s philosophy of
music, the essay presents Losev as both the writer...
Russian actress and stage director Tatyana Pavlova successfully staged two of Maxim
Gorky’s plays in Italy from 1926 through 1928. Those were The Lower Depths, the
most famous play by Gorky, and Counterfeit Coin, a pla...
This article seeks to trace the connection between two kinds of the Romantic sublime
envisaged in Book 8 of Wordsworth’s great autobiographical poem The Prelude, or
Growth of a Poet’s Mind (1805, 1850). Our focus is pr...
This article examines documentary sources of the image of Nestor Ivanovich Makhno
in Alexey N. Tolstoy’s trilogy The Road to Calvary; it bears on the materials that are
both published (Tolstoy’s notebooks) and hitherto...
German settlements in Russia have been known since the ancient
times, however larger settlements appeared only after the “Мanifesto” issued by
Empress Catherine II. Settling in Volga Region, Novorossiya, Crimea, the Ca...
Musical Outlook in Alexey Losev’s Novel The Woman-Thinker
This article discusses the role of music in the context of A.F. Losev’s philosophical prose of the 1930’s and 1940’s. Describing the key ideas of Losev’s philosophy of music, the essay presents Losev as both the writer...
The Lower Depths in Italy: the 1926 Performance Directed by Tatyana Pavlova
Russian actress and stage director Tatyana Pavlova successfully staged two of Maxim Gorky’s plays in Italy from 1926 through 1928. Those were The Lower Depths, the most famous play by Gorky, and Counterfeit Coin, a pla...
The Natural Sublime Leading to the Human Sublime (on Book 8 of Wordsworth’s The Prelude)
This article seeks to trace the connection between two kinds of the Romantic sublime envisaged in Book 8 of Wordsworth’s great autobiographical poem The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind (1805, 1850). Our focus is pr...
The Image of Nestor Makhno in the Pages of Alexey N. Tostoy’s Trilogy The Road to Calvary: Documents and Materials
This article examines documentary sources of the image of Nestor Ivanovich Makhno in Alexey N. Tolstoy’s trilogy The Road to Calvary; it bears on the materials that are both published (Tolstoy’s notebooks) and hitherto...
ON THE PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITY OF “RUSSIAN GERMANS”
German settlements in Russia have been known since the ancient times, however larger settlements appeared only after the “Мanifesto” issued by Empress Catherine II. Settling in Volga Region, Novorossiya, Crimea, the Ca...