History of Science  
Pashkurov A.N. The “City-State” in One of the Kazan Odes by G.N. Gorodchaninov 7
Gavrilova A.E. S.T. Aksakov and P.I. Melnikov-Pechersky (Towards the History of the 53rd Anniversary of Kazan University) 15
Voronova L.Ya. А.S. Arkhangelsky: The Way to Science 21
Bakirov R.A. Late 18th Century Russian Literature in the Works of E.A. Bobrov 37
Muzalevskii N.E. The Marginal Notes of A.N. Ostrovsky in A.N. Veselovsky’s Monograph “The Sketches of Moliere. Tartuffe. The History of the Type and Play” (1879) 46
Sofina A.V. Evaluation of V.S. Solovyov by Kazan Critics and Literary Scholars 57
Alikova E.A. The Poetics of Russian Literature of the Second Half of the 18th Century in 20th Century Kazan Literary Criticism (Based on K.A. Nazaretskaya’s Research) 64
Theory and History of Russian Literature and Criticism  
Breeva T.N. The Subject of the Capture of Kazan in the Structure of the National Myth of Russia (Based on Russian Literature of the Late 18th – Early 19th Centuries) 69
Breeva T.N., Ziyatdinova D.D. The Concept of Germany in D. Rubina’s Works 80
Vasileva-Shalneva T.B. The Specificity of Realization of the Fairy-Tale Component in F. Iskander’s “Rabbits and Boa Constrictors” and A. Kim’s “The Squirrel” 89
Demchenko A.A. N. Chernyshevsky about the “Glorious Dangers of 1812” (Risks of the Utterance) 99
Kolmakov B.I. “The Kreutzer Sonata” by L.N. Tolstoy in the Critical Evaluation of Archbishop Nikanor (A.I. Brovkovich) 104
Rudakova S.V. E. Boratynsky’s Book of Verse of 1827 in the Literary Process of the Early 19th Century 121
Sayapova A.M. “Letters about Tyutchev” by B.M. Kozyrev: Towards the Problem of the Genesis of the Poet’s Natural Philosophy 132
Skvortsov A.E. On the Sources of Some Poems by Vladislav Khodasevich 143
Salomatin A.V. The Genre Specificity of O. Chukhontsev’s Poem “The Homonym” 154
Kharitonova Z.G. The City of Childhood in Vsevolod Nekrasov’s Poem “Kazan Indeed” 162
Problems of Foreign Literature Studies  
Balditsyn P.V., Nesmelova O.O. Tall Tale Narrative Strategy in Mark Twain’s Novels 168
Bekmetov R.F. The West and the East in the Mirror of Poetic Translations 177
Karimiriabi E. The Mythological Image of Satan in Persian and Russian Literature 188
Konovalova Zh.G. Cinematic Devices in T. Capote’s Nonfiction Novel “In Cold Blood” 197
Pavlova S.Yu. The Image of Cardinal Mazarin in the Memoirs of the Mancini Sisters 207
Selivanova E.Yu. The Poetics of Dreams in H. Franke’s Anti-Utopian Novel “Ypsilon Minus” 216
Khabibullina L.F. Transformation of National Meanings within One Plot 223
Shushnina A.V. Fictional Space and Time in Ian McEwan’s “The Child in Time” 230
Modern Trends in National Literatures Research  
Amineva V.R. Modern National Literatures of the Volga Republics as an Intertextual Formation 235
Galieva A.M., Nagumanova E.F. The Peculiarities of Rendering Language-Specific Concepts in Translations: A Case Study of the Concept Moң 245
Criticism and Bibliography  
Krylov V.N. Review of the Book: Govorukhina Yu.A. Russian Literary Criticism at the Turn of the 21st Century 253
Pashkurov A.N. “From God Accept This, Dear Friend…” (J.-W. Paus). Review of the Book: Petrov A.V. The Epithalamium in 18th Century Russian Literature: Essays on the Historical Poetics of the Genre 257