Vol 4, No 1 (2023)

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s novel «One Billion Years to the End of the World» has certain features in terms of subject organization. The article is devoted to the analysis of the authors’ strategy for building a dialogue with the reader in the novel. Arguments are made to prove that the primary subject of speech is a personified narrator disguising as impersonal; the form of diary entries is designed to establish a trusting relationship with the reader, while the main strategy used by the authors of the novel is understanding.

One of the leading directions of the Soviet ballet was the choreodrama, also called drama ballet. Its specifics and peculiarity consisted in the reflection of socialist realism by means of dramatic pantomime and truthfulness of everyday life. The article is devoted to the famous specimen of the choreodrama – S. Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” ballet staged in 1940 by choreographer L. Lavrovsky. In 2022, the performance was transferred to the ballet stage of Buryatia, becoming an example of the preservation of intangible cultural value in the field of theatrical and ballet art.

The periodization of the creative activity of the Russian composer Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1856 – 1936) remains a subject of discussion among musicologists. The present study, which is general in nature, clarifies individual episodes of the musician’s professional biography, the peculiarities of the transformation of the style of his works under the influence of various factors. The author of the article attempts to rethink the periodization of A.K. Glazunov’s musical creativity, taking into account the nonlinear nature of academism evolution and manifestations of innovation.

Dynamic properties of ethnic plastic thinking are rooted not only in the internal development of art, but also depend on the mental and cultural mobility of a particular ethnic group. The author explores particular plastic themes and language perspectives of ethnic folklore, as well as plot forms and motifs of the mythological creativity of the Mordvins. The purpose of the article is to develop modern art criticism discourse of plastic and ethnoplastic understanding of thinking through the analysis of architectonic variants of the structures of ritual imagery, the semantic basis of the architectonic artistic connection and the primary elements of archetypal abilities.

Digital memory studies are one of the current areas of modern memorial research. The article is devoted to understanding the essence of the main virtual memorial phenomena that make up the subject area of this area: web memorials, a memorial cluster of social networks, virtual cemeteries. The article pays special attention to the specifics of the perception of virtual cemeteries by modern Chechens as representatives of a conservative type of memorial culture.

The article presents the results of a survey conducted on the basis of the Kazan Central Bank in 2022. The study showed that not only the theoretical knowledge acquired at the university and in the course of work, but also the organizational culture, psychological, moral climate of the library staff are of determining significance for the formation of professional orientation and personal development of library specialists. Thus, the importance of professional orientation and relevant competencies for a successful career and the achievement of professional goals are confirmed.

The Paris period of the life and activity of the expatriate book publisher Z.I. Grzhebin (1925-1927) is extremely insufficiently studied. A collection of nine letters to V.S. Voitinsky and his wife, discovered at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), makes it possible to clarify a number of episodes that remained outside the framework of the domestic historiography of the issue. Biographical information on the social, political and scientific activities of V.S. Voitinsky in Russia and abroad is given. The text of some Z.I. Grzhebin’s letters, previously unknown to specialists, as well as the agreement on the credit debt of his Berlin publishing house, which actually put an end to the fate of his company, is introduced into scientific circulation.

The article considers a monograph by Professor Galina Kozubovskaya “Russian Literature and the Poetics of the Visible” (2021), devoted to the diverse artistic functions of verbal painting in Russian poetry and prose of the XIXth century. The article describes analytical tools and scientific logic, with the help of which the literary critic scrupulously and successfully explores the phenomenon of the visible. It is shown how different techniques of landscape verbal painting, costume poetics, food motifs help, on the one hand, to detect the tenacious observation of the masters of the word, their ability to build an “image plan” in the text, and, on the other hand, to focus the reader’s attention on the creative reconstruction of the archetypes of mythological consciousness and traces of literary tradition flickering in the text.

The editorial board of the journal presents a conversation of Vladimir Ionesov (Doctor of Culturology, Professor, Samara State Institute of Culture) with Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, a well-known Russian artist and jeweler. The issues of aesthetic transformation of national traditions in modern applied art are discussed on the example of the jewelry collection «Samarkand». The article reveals the peculiarities of artistic design in jewelry art, the aesthetics of the historical heritage of Samarkand, and the interaction of the past and the present in the dialogue of cultures and time as well as semantic, stylistic and value attitudes in the creative design of modern jewelry art objects. National artistic traditions are considered as a source of high inspiration, a generator of new cultural practices and actual creative work.