编号 4 (2025)

The history of the creation of Pushkin's poem «There Once Lived a Poor Knight» has been interpreted differently by various researchers, since the four existing autographs (a rough draft and three clean copies) were introduced into academic circulation with intervals of decades. Pushkin intended twice to publish the poem in the Northern Flowers almanac, but nally gave up the idea, presumably for censorship reasons. In the summer of 1835, a shortened and revised text of the poem was included in his un nished . By dating each of the autographs and examining the iterations, we identi ed three versions of the poem «There Once Lived a Poor Knight».

The article analyzes the new memoir narratives discovered in the writer's archive. Thematically and stylistically, they carry on the tradition of Remizov's 1950s essays on the Dead Souls, based on the literary analysis of the classic's style as construed in Andrei Bely's book Gogol's Mastership (1934). In both essays, a hyperbolized symbol, representing the «grain» of the character's image, forms a lyrical plot that shapes itself around it. The drafts of the essays about N. Berdyaev and V. Lebedev preserved in the writer's notebooks testify to the beginning of a new stage of Remizov's creative career as a memoirist.

The article outlines the main principles and conceptual foundations underlying the interface design for Pushkin.digital, a digital edition developed at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom). In this edition, navigation, visual composition, and modes of interaction with the text are conceived as the elements of philological - and, specifically, interpretative - practices. Rather than being an auxiliary tool, the interface is the form of organizing philological scholarship, a structure that de nes the relationships between the text, its history (genesis), and commentary.

The article focuses on the memoirs about Gulag produced by the amateur writers in the 1960s - mid-1980s. The theoretical framework for the study is the clari cation of the relationship between the poetics of the memoirs and the artistic structure of the Soviet novel. While the authors working on their manuscripts during the Thaw were strongly in uenced by the of cial discourses and tended to use the literary models of Socialist Realism, those writing in the 1970s-1980s chose the narrative strategies close to 'labor camp prose' and autobiographical narratives of the dissidents.

August 2025 marks the 100^th anniversary of the birth of Olga A. Belobrova (1925–2018), textual scholar, source researcher, art historian from the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom). The article offers a retrospective review of a part of her academic heritage, devoted to the studies of Russian pilgrimage literature of the Middle Ages and the New Age. Her multidimensional studies of this corpus of texts she presented them as a reliable historical source, thus contributing new data and valuable observations to the literary history of a number of ancient texts and bringing the studies of the «pilgrimage» genre to a new level. The researcher’s insights are time-tested and accepted by modern scholarship, her works are now a part of the golden fund of Russian Medievalism and Palestinian studies.