Table of Content of Issue 4, 2025

The systematics of ballad plots in literature and folklore

Natalia V. Leonova, Tatyana V. Dayneko
Ballad Plots of Belarusian Songs in Siberia
In detail

Elena V. Kapinos
Plots of Russian Ballads of the First Third of the 19th Century (Based on the “Dictionary of Plots and Motifs of Russian Literature”)
In detail

Literary Life of the Plot

Ilya V. Kuznetsov
The Motives of “The Life of Feodosiy Pechersky” in A. P. Sumarokov’s Drama “The Hermit”
In detail

Liubov G. Kikhney
The Plot and the Characters of A. K. Tolstoy’s “Don Juan”: Between the Classical Tradition and Modernist Ideas
In detail

Alexey E. Kozlov
“To Khvoshchinskoye”: Onomastic Allusion in “The Grammar of Love” by Ivan Bunin
In detail

Ksenia V. Abramova
A Lyrical Plot in a Story about Childhood (Yurkun’s Novel “Swedish Gloves”)
In detail

Svetlana Yu. Kornienko
The Plot of Impostors in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Self-Definition: History and Its Metapoetic Potential (Based on the Book of Poems “Versts. Issue 1”)
In detail

Ivan O. Volkov, Emma M. Zhilyakova
Novellas on the “Tragic Meaning of Love”: Yury Trifonov’s Another Life and Ivan Turgenev’s A Quiet Spot
In detail