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Esej w Rosji — Rosja w Eseju. Wstęp

The article deals with the perception of Lenin's mummy and the Moscow mausoleum in non-fiction narratives, mainly in travel reportage, after the collapse of the USSR (considering the broader cultural background). Concerning Ernst Kantorovich's concept of the "two bodies of the king," the issue of Lenin's "two bodies" was addressed. Both the phenomenon of the immortality of the "bogolenin" and the nature of the mummified body of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution exposed to public view were described. Particularly emphasized is the issue of the Russians' peculiar attitude toward power and the ruler.

The article is dedicated to the book Nowhere. Journey to the Edge of Russia (2019) by Polish philosopher, philologist, and traveler Michal Milczarek. The author of the article pays attention to the narrator’s image, the motif of a road, and the term “nowhere”. The author argues that the writer’s perception is rooted in the child’s phantasmatization (phantasm) and philosophical concepts of existentialism, most importantly Martin Heidegger’s ideas of “the hiddenness of being” and nothingness.

The article is an attempt to read a book by Michał Książek from a postcolonial perspective. It discusses such issues as: the relationship of domination and subordination of the colonizer to the colonized, the phenomenon of transferring traces of Yakut culture to a place where it can safely survive, the use of the map as a tool which gives the Yakutians control over territories that historically belong to them. The article also comments on the accusation that its author carries out “metaphorical colonization.”

The aim of the article is to analyze and interpret a series of ten sketch stories by Alisa Ganieva titled Dagestani Essays (2010). The starting point for the conducted analysis is the classical theory of communication and the genre characteristics of the sketch and the essay. A significant criterion is the strong position of the author's narration. The thesis presented in this article assumes that the chosen form of expression allows Ganieva to achieve two goals: firstly, to show the reader a picture of the unknown Dagestan, and secondly, to highlight the common experiences of the inhabitants of Russia. The unspoken aim of Dagestani Essays is to determine one's own „self” thanks to a journey to the place of one's childhood.

The text contains an interpretation of Sergei Lebedev's “Oblivion” (2010). The main problem of the book is the intergenerational trauma from the Stalinist era. Its mechanisms have been described in reference to the psychoanalytic tradition. The post-catastrophic image of the Russian Far North presented in the novel was also interpreted. It has been compared to descriptions of radical evil and juxtaposed with Giorgio Agamben's homo sacer. The writings of Jacques Derrida were also used, which turned out to be helpful in describing the phenomenon of splitting traumatic "Self", the present and death, as well as the politics of memory and living with the specters of dead people.

Dmitry Zamyatin (born 1962) is a contemporary Russian geographer and culturologist and also a specialist in cultural anthropology, geopolitics, marketing and territorial branding. As a researcher and scientist, he is known in Russia primarily for popularising the concepts of humanistic geography and metageography. He has presented his concept of metageographical research (an interdisciplinary field at the borderline of science, philosophy and art) for years as a researcher and as a populariser and author of essays. The essays written over the years were collected and published in 2011 in the volume In the Heart of the Air. In this article, the concept of travel as a metageographical image and the way in which the traveller models and creates space is explored on the material of selected essays by the Russian metageographer.

The aim of the article is a historical and philological analysis of the mythology of Djado Ivan (Russia-Liberator) in Bulgarian culture and literature. The faith of the Bulgarian people in the liberating mission of Russia for centuries had a religious character, which is clearly visible both in folklore and in literature. The apogee of mythologization falls on the 19th century – the period of the Bulgarian national revival. Prominent artists of that era (L. Karavelov, G. S. Rakovski, P. Slaveykov, I. Vazov) sacralized the Russian tsars, and wrote about Bulgaria’s ties with Russia using family and love metaphors. Only the war in Ukraine began to verify the centuries-old Bulgarian dream of Russia.

FROM THE ARCHIPELAGO TO THE CONTINENT

POLISH TRACES OF VLADIMIR MAKSIMOV

In this article, I have attempted a synthetic analysis of the Polish threads in the editorial activity of Vladimir Maksimov (1930–1995) as head of the émigré quarterly Continent during the period of its publication in Paris (1974–1992). The main idea of Maksimov as editor was to create such a literary-political, and allegedly anti-communist, magazine in Western Europe, which would bring together people involved in the struggle for freedom throughout Eastern Europe in cooperation with Western Europe.

Similar aims had already been pursued much earlier in Parisian Kultura – by Jerzy Giedroyc, Józef Czapski, Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, who, at Maksimov’s request, joined the international editorial board of Continent, remaining on it until his death, even when the editorial board was moved to Moscow from 1992 and handed over to Igor Vinogradov as editor. Meanwhile, Maksimov during the Paris period, supported since 1976 by Natalia Gorbanevskaya, also collaborated very willingly with Poles from the communist regime – Viktor Woroszylski, Adam Michnik, Andrzej Drawicz, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. Both Maksimov and Gorbanievskaya, as well as their Polish authors, saw it as a part of a common struggle “For our freedom and yours” – together with Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Lithuanians, and Hungarians.

The overall aim of the above article was therefore to present this very important “Polish segment” in the history of the Russian Continent in exile.

The article is a continuation of the research on the prose of Mikita Franko - a young author of queer literature who writes in Russian and comes from Kazakhstan. This time, the male figures, definitely dominant in the analyzed works, are in the center of attention. The protagonists of Franko's three novels are considered in the perspective of masculinities studies, which allows them to be analyzed in the context of such categories as hegemonic masculinity, complicit masculinity and subordinate masculinities. In the discussed novels, they take a characteristic East Slavic form. An important aspect of the works is the search for one's own gender identity by the growing up characters, as well as the issue of tolerance, especially current in contemporary Russia.

Film translation is often referred to as a “necessary evil”. This is because the translated lines tend to be simplified in the process of audiovisual translation. It is estimated that the dialogue in a film translation might be shortened by up to 30–40% compared to the original text. However, it should be borne in mind that film dialogues are an integral part of the film’s image and serve not only an informative but also a poetic function. Thus, when translating the characters’ statements, one should consider not only the semantic aspect but also the stylistic elements used in the material, particularly repetitions, contrasting juxtapositions of foreground and background dialogues, and references to musical works. The article presents the conclusions of the author’s research based on five translation variants of the film Cold War into Russian.

The paper presents a linguistic characteristic of patronyms contained in parish registers of the Orthodox parish in Białowieża in the years 1891–1895 and 1906–1910. The forms of paternal names are discussed, as well as their variability resulting from the use, as motivating bases, of various phonetic-morphological variants of first names. The onomastic material reveals that in addition to the canonical names, their literary ("official secular") and less frequent colloquial variants were used in the creation of patronyms. The variation in the forms of paternal names can also be seen at the structural level, as besides the male patronymics with -ov, -ev, -in, which were typical for the period in question, there appeared forms with the suffix -ič. In female identification formulas, otčestva were written, with few exceptions, in full forms with -ovna, -evna, -inična.

The article aims to present a comparative analysis of speech acts of questions contained in Polish and Russian texts sent via postcards in the second half of the 20th century. The study pertains to several aspects of speech acts of questions in postcard texts, such as: 1) their location, 2) speech acts which co-occur with questions, 3) their subject matter, 4) functions performed by questions in the epistolary texts. The analysis shows that the most frequently used type of questions are Wh-questions. Most of the examined questions are asked out of politeness and are used to establish and maintain contact between interaction partners, while questions aimed at obtaining information are rare to be found.

The article analyzes the derivatives of the onym "Putin", which are relevant for the modern Russian Internet discourse, offers an interpretation of the patterns of word formation and word usage of new expressive-evaluative derivatives formed from this proper noun. Author’s study of the use of key proper name “Putin” in the non-official secondary nomination reveals the intralinguistic and sociocultural features of this process

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