Vol 5, No 3 (2024)

The metaphysical architectonics of the apocalypse era as a problem of cultural values is reflected in Andrei Tarkovsky’s work through polycentric culture texts, through masterpieces of film directing as a compedium of universal values. According to the author of this study, Tarkovsky’s film texts show the despiritualization of a modern person, the loss of the culture value core in the situation of a consumer society, the distortion of the very worldview at the level of the original modalities of culture, which is symbolized by the metaphysical distortion of the idea of the Trinity. The collapse of idealism, the absence of value coordinates and ideals, the dismantling of the values of altruism, collectivism, faith in something transcendent, faith in God and oneself as his likeness are the signs of a person’s loss of the inner peace, the apocalypse of despiritualization against the background of global catastrophes of the XXᵗʰ-XXIst centuries. Alongside the films Sacrifice and Nostalgia, A. Tarkovsky’s film masterpiece Stalker is especially representative in this sense.

Creativity is one of the fundamental values for human life. Using an integrated approach that combined functional, historical-systemic and semiotic research methods, the author of the article, systematizing the features of the mentality of the Renaissance and decadence, characterizes the role of these eras in the formation of a modern understanding of creativity. The article reveals the importance of mass media dissemination channels - from book printing to the Internet – in the formation and promotion of the phenomenon of creativity in its modern understanding.

The history of literary studies of estates is a new promising direction in literature science. The article presents its interdisciplinary context related to the versatility of the estate phenomenon. The origins of literary estate studies are presented, namely the works of the 1980-1990s by D.S. Likhacheva, Yu.V. Mann, V.G. Schukin and E.E. Dmitrieva (co-authored with O.N. Kuptsova). The features of separate local searches of scholars in the early XXIˢᵗ century are revealed. A description of the systematic implementation of two projects of the Russian Science Foundation is given: Russian estate in literature and culture: Russian and foreign view (2018-2020), Estate and dacha in Russian literature of the XIXᵗʰ-XXIˢᵗ centuries: the fates of the national ideal (2022-2024).

The study is devoted to one of the four stages of the picture creation process – schematization. This stage is analyzed from art history, psychophysiological and psychological positions. The place of schematization in the general context of the pictorial process is revealed. The study showsthat systemic inversions, in which lower, subordinate components of pictorial activity acquire a dominant meaning, are observed in the structure of human activity. This is manifested in a number of contemporary artareas.

Nowadays, specifics of the digital transformation of book culture are one of the topical issues of scientific book research. Basing on the analysis of printing statistics data, indicators of the book market dynamics, the authors identify the fixed and predicted changes in book culture that have occurred under the influence of digital technologies. The need for advanced theoretical understanding and scientifically based design of new phenomena and technological solutions in book business has been determined. The assessment of ability of modern book sciences to solve the challenges of digital development facing the industry has been made. The subject matter of perspective studies of digital transformations of book culture in bibliology and in the interdisciplinary field has been developed.

For the first time the study reconstructs the book publishing activities of the indigenous Russian population and emigrants from Russia in Narva and Ivangorod after the First World War. The topic is revealed through the materials of the branch of the State Archive of Estonia (the former archive of the KGB of the Estonian Soviet Socialistic Republic) in the context of the cultural and historical development of the Russian world in Prinarovie. The author pays special attention to the repertoire of the largest Narva printing houses – “A.G. Grigoriev’s Heirs” and M.N. Minis’s. The study reveals the specifics of the book publishing in Narva-Ivangorod as well as the thematic and typological diversity of local book products, which comprised the works of famous authors: the poet Igor Severyanin, the theologian John (Shakhovsky) and the philosopher Ivan Ilyin.

The name of V.E. Bank is not often found in library science literature, although his role in restructuring of many areas of scientific libraries operation in the 1920-1930s is highly significant. The Scientific Secretary of the State Public Library named after M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, the director of the Higher Courses of Library Science, the creator of the country’s first library postgraduate courses was persecuted in the late 1930s due to his rejection of the revolutionary events of 1917. The article, for the first time, by means of archival data introduced into scientific circulation reveals in detail these pages in the life of the scientist and public figure.

In May 2024, within the framework of the regular All-Russian Library Congress, two sessions of the “Bibliographic and Archaeographic Source Study in Libraries, Archives and Museums” Round Table were held. The first session took place in Sviyazhsk and was devoted to the problems and prospects of preparing reference publications as well as electronic resources on modern and historical regionalistics. During the second session, in Kazan, the issues of research and publication of sources on Russian history were discussed alongside the issues related to historical bibliography and biographic studies, regional archaeography. The current review contains summaries of reports and presentations materials of the biobibliographic reference book “Heads of Higher and Central State Institutions of the Russian Empire, 1802-1917” and the 6th issue of the collection “Bibliography. Archaeography. Source Studies”.