2026 №41

The name of the journal is not from Lef's “literature of fact”, but from the article “Literary Fact” by Yuri Tynyanov, in which he wrote:

“Definitions of literature, operating with its ‘main’ features, run into a living literary fact. While to give a firm definition of literature is becoming more and more difficult, any contemporary will point his finger at what a literary fact is. He will say that one thing does not belong to literature, representing a fact of poet's everyday or personal life, but the other thing, on the contrary, is precisely a literary fact.”

CONTENTS

FROM CREATIVE HERITAGE

Konstantin Azadovsky. Unkbown Poems by Nikolai Klyuev

Yulia Semina. The Main Character in the Story of Fedor Kryukov “The Ripple” Nikifor Terpug: Transformation of the Image

MEMOIRS. LETTERS. DAIRIES

“The Work of an Entire Family” (letter from Varvara Brun de Saint-Hippolyte to Nikolai Gogol with Materials for a sequel to “Dead Souls”), introductory article by N.L. Vinogradskaya, text preparation and commentary by N.L. Vinogradskaya and A.A. Shurukhina

Alexey Lyubomudrov. “And it is Based on Love... “: The Correspondence of Leonid Zurov with Boris Zaitsev, Vera Zaitseva and Natalia Sollogub. 1928–1971

BIOGRAPHICA

Vera Filicheva. Fyodor Sologub and the Literary Competition of the “Mir Prikliuchenii” Magazine

Anastasia Plotnikova. The Unknown Correspondent of Maxim Gorky Ivan Naumov, the First Director of the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature: A Source Study

Alexandre Stroev. Banine and Bunin: “Flame in Temptation”

ARTICLES. NOTES. REPORTS

Sergey Nikolaev. Unexpected Cases of Reverse Translation in the 17^th–18^th Centuries: “Back and Forth”

Mikhail Andreev. Griboyedov and Gresset: On One Possible Intertext of “Woe from Wit”

Irina Lagutina. Echo of Kotzebue’s Murder: The Baccalaureus in Goethe’s Tragedy “Faust, Part Two” as a Demonic Mask of the Age

Mark Altshuller. Who Was “The Wise Helmsman”: On Pushkin’s Poem “Arion”

Ekaterina Kuznetsova. Literary Mask of Angelika Safyanova: Genesis and Literary Context

Natalia Kornienko. On Periodization of the History of Russian Literature of the 20^th Century

Irina Surat. Circular Patience. On the Issue of “Osip Mandelstam and Cinema”

Georgy Kryuchkov. Lydia Chukovskaya’s Work “Procherk” as a Medium of Cultural Memory.”

TEXTOLOGY AND BYZANTOLOGY ISSUES

Alexandra Balakhovskaya. The Life of St. Anthony the Great by Athanasius of Alexandria. Some Thoughts on Genre

Alexandra Nikiforova. Paschal Canon Of John Of Damascus: Text and Context

Lydia Spyridonova, Andrey Kurbanov. The Leichoudes Brothers’ Epistolary Manual: Sources and Method of Compilation

FROM SCOLAR HERITAGE

Yulia Balakshina. “Considering Every Word”: In Memory of Irina Zaitseva

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