The work is devoted to one of poorly explored pages of Troubled Times in Russian North. The subject-matter is the destiny of one small Russian city which appeared to be in the centre of events connected with Pskov struggle against Swedish intervention. The author considers in detail a knotty chronology of Troubled events in Gdov area, he also clears up Gdov's destiny till 1621 when the settlement of disputable boundary questions had been completed. The article shows that right after a failure of the Swedish attack on Pskov conditions of Stolbovsky Peace (1617) between Russia and Sweden appeared to be more acceptable for Russia, than those that the Swedes had originally expected.

«THE GREAT SPLIT: REASONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE CONFLICT: DIFFERENT APPROACHES»

I.G. Artzybashev

The author undertakes an attempt to carry out the generalized analysis of the reasons andconsequences of the conflict that had an essential influence on development of Russian society and the state. For the purpose of being objective, the author regards three different approaches (of history and philosophy, religion, culture studies) reflected in works of native scholars in19th — the beginning of 21th cc. The work aims at making contribution to studying both the truereasons, consequences of the split and native experience upon formation and development ofthe state religious relations.

WORKING OUT THE PROJECT «A STATE OF NATIONALS ON THE WHOLE»: WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF CODE COMMISSION ACTIVITY (1754-1766)

N.V. Korshunova

The article examines Elizabethan Code commission activity; in particular, it offers someconsiderations upon drawing up three editions of the project «A State of Nationals on the Whole». The work represents P.I. Shuvalov's activity, and later on R.A. Vorontsov's work ongathering materials for the project. The author of the article made a comparative analysis oneditions of a certain part of the Code project. The special concern is given to working up «The Merchants' Rights» that had been done for the first time in Russia.

CORPORATE CONCEPTION AND PROVINCIAL NOBILITY ON CLASS CHARACTER OF MANAGEMENT OF ZEMSTVOS IN 60–80-s OF 19th C.

V.A. Shapovalov

The work represents the social-psychological perception of «Regulations about provincialand district zemstval establishments» (January, 1, 1864) amid nobility. The nobilityrecognized its own exclusive role in structures of zemstval self-management. This idea comes from traditional interrelations within the institute of the autocracy and the high estate. The analysis of the specified problem is done with regard for positions of separate striations amongnobility.

REVOLUTION OF 191IN DESTINIES OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENTSIA (S.N. BULGAKOV)

Е.Ya. Zasiad-Wolf

The Revolution of 1917 in Russia had a huge influence on S.N. Bulgakov's life and creativity. The thinker gave the estimation to revolutionary changes in his articles and letters. The Revolution inspired S.N.Bulgakov to adopt priesthood, deviate from secular themes in hisresearches. According to the decision of the Soviet government S.N. Bulgakov had been sentout from Soviet Russia, but even abroad he continued his work.

FROM THE HISTORY OF FORMATION MAGNITOGORSK PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEM (1929-1935)

N.N. Makarova

Construction of the Magnitogorsk Metal Factory and the city was accompanied by a number of difficulties, so the sanitary-epidemic conditions of the new city were of cardinal importance. The article is devoted to causes that trigger epidemics and basic ways to contain them. Despite serious growth of epidemic diseases during 1930-1933, the situation had been undercontrol and by 1935 there were not any new outbreaks of infectious diseases. Besides, the article gives data on the birth rate and the death rate in Magnitogorsk during the first half of 1930s.

TRADE UNIONS ACTIVITY ON IMPROVEMENT OF WORKING CONDITIONS AND REDUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES AT COAL INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES IN CHELYABINSK REGION AT THE END OF 50-s — THE BEGINNING OF 80-s 20TH C.

O.F. Mikhaylovskaya

The subject is modern and actual. The work contains research on the coal industrial working conditions, causes of the industrial injuries and the trade unions activity at the end of 50-s — the beginning of 80-s, 20th c. The work gives analyses on of the trade unions activity atcoal industry enterprises in Chelyabinsk region and on measures adopted by trade unions onimprovement of working conditions and reduction of industrial injuries; besides it gives arguments on positive and negative traits of trade unions activity. The conclusion is, though, agreat deal of work had been done, there were still blunders made and negligence allowed ateach separate working place, and labour precautions were not at sufficient level. The results ofthe work have theoretical and practical importance. They can be used for research of the tradeunion activity in other industrial branches, for courses of the Ural trade union history, the regionstudy or the native history.

ENGLISH EGYPTIAN RELATIONS OF THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 19th — THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 20th CC. IN COVERAGE OF ENGLISH PUBLICISM

N.A. Belolipetskaja

The article illustrates basic themes developed within English publicism at coverage Great Britain politics concerning Egypt. The authors of those publications were English politicians, colonial figures, travelers, journalists. The author comes to a conclusion, that the most developed topics of the examined period are questions on economic, political and military presence of the English in Egypt.

DIARY IN MEMOIRS GENRE SYSTEM

A.V. Podgorsky

The genre of a diary is traditionally ranked to memoirs in a wide acceptance of this word. Comparison of memoirs by F. de Commynes, Saint-Simon and diaries of Denjoy, S. Pips, Lolstoy, M.Bashkirtseva brings the author to the following conclusion: the Diary is not amemoirs genre. It is not fair to put diary among memoirs, biographies, confessions, curriculum vitae only because the given forms use or falsify its elements.

JOHN DRYDEN'S СOMEDY «AMPHITRION»: ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY

О.А. Ladnaya

The author analyzes some features of the plot within J. Dryden's play «Amphitrion». Dryden borrows a part of the plot at Moliere, altering it according to his own idea about comedy. The aspiration to make the play more sharp and striking forces Dryden to intensify contrast between characters of «high» and «low» story lines. So, he adds romanticism and sublimity to Jove and Alkmen and makes heroes of the second plot even more rough and vulgar, than they are at Moliere. There is an element of satire on a court society, hypocriticalnorms of Puritan morals in the play; besides there are also farce elements and some rough humour which are close and clear to commoners.

ON THE PROBLEM OF NICHOLAS ROWE’S TRAGIC STYLE

O.Ye. Zagriyeva

This article deals with Nicholas Rowe’s (1674–1718) conception of tragedy and hischaracteristic style. The author examines the subject matter of his plays, the kind of didacticism, the response this playwright intended to evoke and the way he depicted his characters. The aim of the article is to argue that Rowe is an early sentimentalist.

EVOLUTION OF CONCEPT — «PROVINCE» IN ENGLISH COMEDY OF MANNERS IN 18th c.

M.U. Borovlyova

The given article considers the evolution оf a concept — «province» during the 18th century as the basic concept within English comedy of manners. The article offers analysis of plays by G. Farquhar, J. Addison, G. Fielding, O. Goldsmith, R.B. Sheridan, so the present materialallows to determine the character of this evolution within the concept and the paradigm of its development.

JANE AUSTEN'S «FEMALE WORLD»

J.V.Timoshenko, N.E. Erofeyeva

The novel «Persuasion» by J.Austen is an illustrative example of the writer's «femaleworld». Such world includes the autobiographical features and the author's ideas on female upbringing and education. The particular attention is paid to relations between a man and awoman, as well as to home, family and marriage.

I.M.R. LENZ INDIVIDUAL DRAMATURGIC STYLE: FORMATION AND T.M. PLAUTUS INFLUENCE

S.A. Burikova

The article is devoted to the analysis done on translations and adaptations of Plautus comedies made by J. Lenz which influenced the formation of the playwright's individual style. The playwright recopied Plautus comedies in German, in German traditions. When doing the translation the playwright did not aspire to adhere precisely to the text of the original, he freely changed ways of expressiveness, aiming at speaking briefly and in a more modern language. J.Lenz contributed to the idea of making the great antique master's comedies the common property of German theatre.

ONTOLOGICAL SITUATION OF A THRESHOLD IN NOVEL «GREAT EXPECTATIONS» BY CH. DICKENS

A.S. Matveeva

Dickens novel «Great Expectations» (1861) is an illustration of a case when the incorrect choice made by a man for his prospects on outward things shows him that his hopes and expectations fail to live up to and the vital bases are false. The instinctive fear to the world prompted the main character, a boy to do his best and go through the meeting with the convict (as an ontologically intense point of a threshold) in the least painless way, «without serious consequences». Namely, he tries to forget about the meeting as soon as possible, but as a re7 sult, at a certain moment of his life it brought him to the wreck of «great expectations».

HOGATH’S AESTHETICS AND DICKENS’ URBAN IMAGE («SKETCHES BY BOZ»)

T.O. Belenkova

Due to its narrative trend W.Hogarth's art is traditionally considered to be a part of literary history. His popularity was enormous in the Victorian era. Ch. Dickens, one of his most eminent admirers, created his own pictures of London under the influence of Hogarth's prints. There is much in common between the painter and the writer in their pictures of London life, which is particularly evident in «Sketches by Boz» compared with Hogarth's «A Harlot's Progress», «Rake's Progress», «The Times of Day». Sharing Hogarth's impression of the life of the capital Dickens used the technique of the painter the result of which is the picturesque, visual effect of his urban scenes. So the art of Hogarth became the important source of Dickens'London.

INNOVATION OF FORM IN О. DЕ BALZAC NOVEL «COUSINE BETH»

I.V. Sergienko

The article presents analysis on creative methods of constructing the plot in novels of «Human comedy». The author thinks it is possible to state the process of О. dе Balzac's innovation within the framework of his novel «Cousine Beth». First of all it manifested itself in widening the novelistic form due to inclusion into a narrative course some drama elements. Besides, a omplicated structure had been introduced into the novel and it bore only a formal resemblance to scenic division into acts, scenes with verbal stage directions and comments. All these facts allow to speak about a new form that is a novel7drama.

VARIANTS OF REALIZATION OF THEATRICALITY CATEGORY IN ENGLISH NOVEL IN 19th–20th CC.

S.G. Lipnjagova

The article by S.G. Lipnjagova deals with variants of realization of the theatricality category in the English novel of 19th720th cc. The analysis of the novels «Mansfield Park» (1814) by J. Austen and «Between the Acts» (1941) by V. Woolf is given as the example. Theatricality, as a category of poetics of a novel, defines the inner organization of a text on a structure level, a plot organization, a character system and a conflict. Home theatre in the novel by J. Austen and amateur performance in the novel by V. Woolf, being a moment of conjunction for real and theatrical worlds, become the forms of the inter7pretation for metaphor «the world7theatre». In this very sense one can dwell upon the theatri7cality of a so called «nontheatrical space within the novel. The dialogue between the theatrical» and «nontheatrical» origins forms different variants of theatricality category in thementioned novels.

ENGLISH WRITERS ON SIGNIFICANCE OF RUSSIAN CLASSICS' CREATIVE HERITAGE

N.P. Mikhalskaya

The article is devoted to the analysis done on significance of creative traditions of Russian classic writers — Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevskiy, Chekhov, Gorkiy, Sholokhov — for Englishnovelists in 19–20th, from G. Meredith to I. Murdoch. Russian realism influenced English writers by its constant search of truth, objectiveness of description, wideness of life situation, the author's position on sincerity, humanism and democratism of the subject, expressiveness of human characters. Russian novel attracted English people attention with the originality of its aesthetic nature, excellent plot, structure, and genre originality.

«METATEXTS BY WILLIAM BLAKE IN WILLIAM MORRIS AESTHETICS»

E.V. Sedykh

The article is devoted to the problem on interaction of aesthetic views between two great English romanticists — Blake and Morris from the point of literary criticism, art criticism and aesthetics. The materials of the research are Blake's works closely related to Morris's romantic manner of perception and metatexts by Morris. The author searches out ways of contact linking Blake and Morris's aesthetic views and gives analysis to the further development of theseviews in William Morris's works. The work considers concepts of symbolism, mythology, synthesis of arts as the basic principles of Blake and Morris's aesthetics.

THE SIDNEY’S PSALMS OF DAVID

L.V. Yegorova

The article introduces to the Russian reader information about the manuscripts and the main editions of the Sidney’s psalms. It discusses the Sidney7Pembroke psalms in relation to earlier metrical paraphrases, its dependence on the French versions of Marot and Beza, the Prayer Book Psalter, the Geneva Bible, and Beza'a paraphrases of the Psalms. It points out the approaches of Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke to paraphrases.

IMAGE OF FLOWER IN BIEDERMEIER LITERATURE

E.R. Ivanova

The article elucidates the image of a flower in German Biedermeier literature. It is one of post romantic trends developed in Germany during the first half 19th c. Biedermeier created the flower language that is «Вlumensprache» (language of flowers) or «Sinnige Кranze und Strauße» (essence of wreaths and flowers). Poets and writers preferred to use in their works real, recognized by everybody flowers that evoke human feelings. Finally, not only the famous masters of a word addressed the flower symbolism, but also artists did so, the image of a flower served them as an ornament and «language» of communication.

G. BOCCACCIO IN THE VICTORIAN POET’S PERCEPTION («THE LOVER’S TALE» AND «THE FALCON» by A. TENNYSON)

N.I. Sokolova

Tennyson became familiar with «Decameron» in his early youth, and at nineteen he wrote «The Lover's Tale» (1870), founded on the fourth novella of the tenth day. But the poet's treat7 ment of Boccaccio’s plot is rather subjective. Contrary to Boccaccio who is always concrete, the action takes place in an uncertain «Land of Love», and we learn nothing about the heroes’social roles, the narrators participate in the events themselves. The main difference concerns the concept of love, which is of the natural source for Boccaccio, but for Tennyson has the di7vine origin; his Julian deifies his lover, which is alien to the Italian writer’s heroes. Tennyson's comedy «The Falcon» (1879), based on the ninth novella of the fifth day of «Decameron», is much closer to Boccaccio’ content. The poet introduces the figures of servants as the main source of comic effect and the feud as the reason for the alienation of his heroes’ families. But the concept of love in the comedy resembles the early poem; besides, Tennyson intensifies his hero's strict observance of the chivalrous code of behavior. Both works inspired by Boccaccio became the expression of the poet's concern on the ethical state of society, of his desire to re7vive moral values and the spirit of chivalry among his contemporaries.

KINDS AND FUNCTIONS OF POETICAL INSERTION IN NOVEL «ULYXES» BY J. JOYCE

S.E. Sheina

The forms of the poetical insertion in James Joyce’s «Ulyxes» are studied. The poetical elements are divided in accordance with their size: prosodical elements, a microcitation, a verse, a poem. All of them are used to introduce the lyricism into the prosaic structure of the novel thus anticipating the active correlation of poetry and prose in «Finnegans Wake.

ENLIGHTENER TRADITIONS IN NOVEL «ADVENTURES OF HADJI BABA ISPHAGANI IN LONDON» BY D. MORIER

L.I. Iskhakova

In many respects, D. Morier’s novel «Adventures of Hadji7Baba Isfagani in London» goes back to enlightener tradition, in particular, to S. Monteskje’s «Persian letters». Morier usesthe same art device of keeping aloof from one's own culture through perception of a stranger, the Persian, a person from other civilization. However, at Morier functions of the mentioned device are different. Montesquieu uses this device for criticism of his own, revealing imperfections of society at absolute monarchy. On the contrary, Morier displays advantages and superiority of his society and culture in the face of oriental despotism.

A ROLE OF SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS WITHIN COMMUNICATION PROCESS IN NOVEL «HENRY ESMOND STORY» BY W.M. THACKERAY

O.H. Vaseva

The communication is one of the main art problems in W.M. Thackeray novel «HenryEsmond Story». The process reveals itself at different levels. The author addresses social and psychological aspects of the communication. It allows defining more precisely the character of mutual relations between heroes; their perception of the same communicative acts appears to be ambiguous. The reasons for this discrepancy are differences in understanding communicative signs and use of various communicative codes.

THE CREATIVE PRINCIPLES OF HISTORICAL NARRATION IN COLLINS NOVEL «ANTONINA OR FALL OF ROME»

E.V. Somova

This article presents new material about early historical novel by W. Collins «Antonina or Fall of Rome» (1850), made in historical fiction genre. The author of the study has revealed main principles of creating historical narration, the traditions of an «antiquarian» roman and W. Scott's conception of history; some specific historiografical sources, which were used by W. Collins; narrative sequences, which elucidate authorized views on historical process. The characters of the novel go through a series of dramatic adventures, and this is W. Collins's device to expresses his view on history.

VICTORIAN TRADITIONS IN A. CHRISTIE'S SYSTEM OF VIEWS ON PERSON AND SOCIETY

N.V. Tusina

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. But this article is devoted to the writings of Agatha Christie as Mary Westmacott. When, writing as Mary Westmacott, she turned her deep understanding of human nature away from the crime genre, she created psychological novels as memorable as the best of her work. Besides, the author of the article tried to prove that Agatha Christie confessed Victorian outlook during all her life.

WORLD LITERATURE IN CONTEXT OF CULTURE: NEW APPROACHES TO RESEARCH

V.A. Lookov

The article considerers a new area of literary criticism — the theory on history of literature. The research of the world literature in the context of culture leads to formation of anin dependent area within the theory of literature. The theory on history of literature with itshistoriography, scientific methods, concrete receptions of research and some impressingachievements turns out to be more and more separated from the poetics and the historicalpoetics. The prospects of development for this area appear to be rather optimistic.

D.I.FONVIZIN’S “TESTAMENT”: PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION

A.V. Rastjagaev

The article is about D.I. Fonvizin’s testament which is viewed in contest of the writer’s confessed creativity. The work defines some basic genre features of the testament, its role and functions in Old Russian tradition. Fonvizin’s testament is considered from traditional and innovative points of view. The author points out that in 18th c. the testament lost its spiritual component and became merely a property document.

STYLE TENDENCIES IN RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS POETRY AT THE TURN OF 20th c.

A.V. Podgorskaya

The article is devoted to revealing the specificity of christmas narration in Russian poetry at the turn of 20th c. Materials for research are works by A. Blok, M. Tsvetaeva, O. Mandelshtam, V. Khodasevich, V. Majakovsky, A. Belyi, V. Solovjev, G. Ivanov, Z. Gippius, S. Yesenin. The article traces tendencies of change in the semantic content and artistic decisions of a christmas plot in Russian poetry.

A. CHEKHOV'S EXISTENTIAL POINT OF VIEW ON PHENOMENON OF DEATH

T.B. Zajtseva

The analysis of Chekhov’s «The Boring Story» and «Gusev» brings to light the writer's existential point of view on a phenomenon of death and finds out a set of interchanges betweenChekhov’s position and philosophical reflections of Danish thinker Kirkegor. Chekhov con7siders death as a «boundary situation», capable to open doubtfulness of any knowledge onreality and turn a person into searches of original existence. Apart from the existential7philo7sophical attitude to death, Chekhov’s point of view is based not only upon his personal per7ception of this phenomenon (existential experience), but, first of all, on art experience. Chekhov is interested in both private world of a single person (whose individual existence isalways tragic) and general natural life, its stream makes no difference about death of any indi7vidual human being, it is perceived as a common, non remarkable event.

NONEXISTENCE AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE AT THE BEGINNING OF 20 c. (A. BELYI, M. GORKYI, V. NABOKOV)

V.S. Sevastyanova

The question on non7existence becomes the most significant in the art7philosophical search within Russian literature of first third 20th c. when the center of art systems created by poets and writers appears to be vacuity. However in literary criticism works this specific view on the world does not get proper attention and analysis among scholars. Researchers write about familiar handling of poet7decadents' reality, about poetic nihilism which exhausted its potentialities by the beginning of 19107s, about attempts to justify existence in works by A. Belyi, M. Gorkyi, V. Nabokov. Meanwhile, the real result of art and theoretical searches amid these authors is creation of the «distorted worlds» — antisystems where existence of the God, the world and the «I am» substitute for ««another», i.e. nonexistence.

WRITER OF SPIRITUAL RENAISSANCE: A. PLATONOV'S ART METAPHYSICS

V.S. Fedorov

The work is about the specificity of A. Platonov's art principles. The author marks that the problem of studying Andrey Platonov's creative heritage has a rather distinct dual aspect. On the one hand, the aspect is connected with phenomenal poly7textual characteristic of Platonov's text; on the other hand, the aspect is connected with an abstract mechanism of original deep7laid connections of polytextual initiations in Platonov's text as it is.

SUBJECT WORLD OF SOVIET PROSE IN 1930-S (II)

T.E. Huzina

The article is an attempt to reveal the basic subject motives typical for prose of socialist realism during 1930-s. Formation of the subject stereotypes, bound to characterize a new life, passed in parallel with creation of negative reputation to elements of the old life recognized as hostile. At the same time there was a tendency of a sarcastic-ironic view upon new subject semantics.

CINEMATOGRAPHY IN L.I. BORODIN'S PROSE

T.I. Vasiljeva

Cinematography of the fiction text is shown through the special dynamics of a plot reflected in a fast change of pictures — episodes, use of visual influence on the reader, retrospective display and other existential «transitions». However cinematography is also a quite distinguishing feature for many works of new realism. L.I. Borodin is a bright representative of this tendency. L.I. Borodin transfers the dynamical image of events at lexical and syntactic levels. The author of the article views the cinematography in Borodin's works basing on the series of his short stories.

RUSSIAN FANTASY: TYPOLOGY OF CHARACTERS

E.A. Chepur

The subject7matters of the article are defining fantasy as a literary trend and revealing specificity of Russian fantasy on material of novels by modern writers A. Bushkov, M. Frai, M. Semenova, J. Nikitin, S. Alekseev. The author draws a conclusion on original synthetic nature of the figurative system within Russian fantasy which emerged from borrowing methods out of foreign fantasy, along with following Russian literature traditions.

PHENOMENON OF FANTASY AND ESTIMATION CRITERIA OF THE GENRE IN POSTMODERN EPOCH

O.S. Monchakovskaja

The article is devoted to the problem of fantasy literature phenomenon and the estimation criteria of the genre composition in postmodern epoch. The work notes some distinguishing trends of the modern mass literature and a game component is being the main one among them. The researcher mentions active ways of a reader, besides, the latter enters a kind of intellectual game with the author. The article gives classification on readers according to the level of perception of a fiction text and on the authors as to their catering for a reader of a certain level.

WRITTEN SOURCES OF UNBUSINESSLIKE CHARACTER OF TOBOLSK IN PHILOLOGICAL ASPECT

M.S. Vykhrystyuk

Among hand7written and printed texts XVII–XVIII centuries of Tobolsk a special place borrow the monuments of unbusinesslike character stored funds of library of the rare book at city историко7architectural memorial estate. Under the maintenance it is possible to allocate as the fullest groups of texts scientifically7cognitive and chronicle. Work is devoted to the analysis of written sources of unbusinesslike character of Tobolsk From the point of view of linguistic pithiness and информативности it is possible to allocate the fullest groups of texts — scientifically7cognitive and летописно7chronicle. To scientifically7cognitive texts we shall carry the Tobolsk variants of anonymous hand7written monuments XVII centuries, XVIII centuries and Record of the astronomical phenomena. They represent original genres ofOld Russian writing, original fragments of a naive picture of the world, united practicalness and imaginations of the Russian person.

CONNOTATION ASPECT OF SEMANTICS IN PERSONAL NAMES

O.V. Kisel

The paper deals with the division of anthroponomy of semantics and connotations. The subject of the paper is connotation as the main aspect of the semantic system in personal names. The names are apparent in their semantics, their functional structure and their relationship to language and speech, in belonging to active vocabulary and other parameters. The connotation can be divided into three aspects: emotion, expressiveness and culture. The author comes to the conclusion that many social facts influence the connotation of personal names.

DIALOGIC CHARACTERISTIC AS TYPOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTE OF EPISTOLARY BUSINESS TEXT AT THE END OF 18th — THE BEGINNING OF 19th CC.

N.V. Gluhih

The article gives analysis on realization of a text dialogic category within the business epistolary text at the end 18th — the beginnings of 19th c. The epistolary business text is regarded as either official or private7official written communication. A dialogic characteristic of the epistolary business text is an important typological category within the textual area. This distinguishing characteristic manifested itself through special means of expression present in the text and it is realized through speech conduct among the participants of correspondence.

EXORCISM AND NATIONAL EPOS: PROBLEM OF INTERACTION

V.A. Moskvina

The article presents the process of interaction between exorcisms and the national epos, defines reasons of their interaction and an active role of the exorcist formulas in context of the epic piece. The work is done on the folklore material of Western Siberia. The 19th century material (19th c. is the period of coexistence of bylinas and exorcisms in Southern Siberia areas) allows the author to speak about influence of the historical epos on exorcist poetics. The research done on local fabulous texts shows that exorcism also included fabulous images in its system of characters. At present, there is a strong tendency to connect exorcisms with non fantastic prose. The author also gives emphasis on a group of stories about recovery, defines the system of specific motives and their interaction with oral mythological and autobiographical stories.

V.A.SENKEVICH'S ARCHIVAL FUND AS HISTORICO-ETHNOGRAPHIC SOURCE

I.V. Osipova

The article is devoted to the analysis of a personal fund composed by a professor of the Russian department at Мagnitogorsk University — V.A. Senkevich (the archive of Magnitogorsk). The field materials collected by Senkevich in 60–80s of 20th c. during expeditions to Russian mine7works settlements at Beloretsk area of Bashkortostan, give some important historico7ethnographic information which confirms and supplements archival and documentary data on the history of this region. The fund of the researcher is a quite valuable historico7ethnographic source so it can be of a great interest and importance either to the linguist, or to the specialist in folklore, the historian, the ethnographer.

CATEGORIES «EXISTENCE», «REAL» AND «DUE» IN CONCEPTUAL MODELING OF CULTURE

S.N. Amelchenko

Categories «existence», «real» and «due» are not widely and stably adopted in culture7philosophical theories, but they are namely the key ones in formation of ontology, gnosiology, deontology and axiomatic area of culture. The use of these categories along with a conceptual method of modeling culture allows to expand possibilities of understanding culture essence, structure, typology and introduce some new aspects into research of culture correla7 tion with civilization.

MICHEL FOUCAULT’S HISTORIOGRAPHIC LABORATORY: ANALYSIS EXPERIMENT ON HISTORICAL TEXTS

М.S. Rudakova

The author considers formation of Michel Foucault's individual historiographic laboratory. Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian at the same time. His studies, concepts, a spectrum of problems under research influenced development of a historical science; however, he was not included into a number of professional historians.

ONTOLOGIC BASES OF ORTHODOX ASCETISM

K.M. Yushkov

During historical development of mankind religion as a philosophical problem always excited scholars. In our opinion, it is necessary to take up the ontologic bases of an orthodox ascetic ideal in order to gain a better understanding of a modern religious reality and comprehension of faith (its total amount) as a contribution to independence and an active vital position of the person. Activity of a pious person is to a great degree directed to the spiritual side of his life, for the rescue of a person’s soul and all his activity is subordinated to ascetic ideals of faith.

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HISTORY

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WORLD HISTORY

PHILOLOGY

HISTORY OF LITERATURE

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