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Translators in the Soviet Writers' Union: Georgian Poets' Translations by Boris Pasternak in the Soviet Culture of 1930s
P. 185–212.
Elena Zemskova
The article focuses on the translations of Georgian verse by Boris Pasternak, the publication of which became a very important milestone in the history of the Soviet literature of the 1930s. This research examines specifically the perception of these translations by various members of the contemporary literary establishment.
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Максимов И. В., Новый филологический вестник 2026 Т. 77 № 2 С. 352–362
The majority of studies dedicated to philology in the oeuvre of Olga Sedakova concentrate on her prose texts. This article seeks to examine the relationship between the author’s engagement with literary studies and her poetic texts. The focus of the study is Sedakova’s poetic cycle, ‘Azarovka’, which provides an illustrative example of the interconnection between ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Максимов И. В., Новый филологический вестник 2025 Т. 73 № 2 С. 187–196
The majority of studies on the metrical aspects of Olga Sedakova’s poetry focus on the formal elements of versification, rarely exploring the substantive possibilities of the chosen metres. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the unified narrative of the four-foot amphibrach, tracing its development in Russian poetry from V.A. Zhukovsky to O.A. Sedakova. At ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Егорова А. А., Детские чтения 2023 Т. 23 № 1 С. 299–331
В статье описаны адаптации романа Чарльза Диккенса «Дэвид Копперфильд», выполненные на русском языке для детей. Основная цель работы заключалась в том, чтобы определить, менялись ли подходы к работе с романом в разные исторические периоды — в дореволюционные годы, во времена советской власти и в современной России. Для этого были проанализированы доступные на сегодняшний день переводы ...
Added: February 27, 2026
Левина М. Д., Шаги/Steps 2025 Т. 11 № 3 С. 225–237
In many of Boris Pasternak’s early poems, the influence of Igor Severyanin (I. V. Lotarev) can be detected. Even their contemporaries noted that Pasternak used themes, motifs and stylistic features of the older poet. Nevertheless, as is known, Pasternak very often rewrote his poems. While reworking early texts, Pasternak tried to partially free them from ...
Added: September 10, 2025
Kunitsyn G., Русская литература 2025 № 3 С. 192–204
Статья посвящена «еврейскому вопросу» в жизни и творчестве Б. Пастернака. На основе анализа эпистолярных и художественных свидетельств делается предположение о специфической амбивалентной роли еврейского происхождения в автомифологии поэта. С одной стороны, ощущение исключенности из окружающего христианского универсума встраивается в представления Пастернака об искусстве и роли художника как одно из требующих творческого преодоления препятствий физического, детерминированного ...
Added: September 2, 2025
Bodrova A. S., Русская литература 2025 № 2 С. 126–139
The article explores the censorship history of the early Russian translations of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi). Examining the specific institutions of cultural transfer, the Foreign Censorship Committee that regulated the circulation of foreign language books and the rank-and-file censorship departments that were responsible for the translations into the languages of the Russian Empire, the author ...
Added: July 21, 2025
Флоренция: Firenze University Press, 2024.
With this book, twenty-four specialists on 17th and 18th-Century Russia from Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, China, and the United States celebrate the sixty-fifth birthday of Maria Cristina Bragone, professor of Slavic philology and Russian literature at Pavia University. Their essays focus on her main topic of interest and research: Peter the Great’s era and ...
Added: May 2, 2025
Kunitsyn G., Polivanova D., Polivanov K., Русская литература 2025 № 1 С. 135–160
The article presents an interpretation of the cycle “Five Tales,” with which Boris Pasternak opens his fourth book of poetry, Themes and Variations. Textual analysis makes possible comprehension of this cycle’s instantiation of the book’s main “themes” (inspiration, art, love, nature, temptation) and of how they take shape as a unified composition. Furthermore, the article ...
Added: January 4, 2025
Polivanov K., Новое литературное обозрение 2024 Т. 185 № 1 С. 363–365
Рецензия на первый том "Летописи жизни и творчества" Б. Л. Пастернака. Общая характеристика. Обсуждение принципов составления. Отмеченные неточности. ...
Added: January 4, 2025
Polivanov K., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024.
When starting work on Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak repeatedly stressed that he wanted to capture the course of Russian History at the beginning of the 20th century. What reference points define the picture of the epoch in this novel? What sources did Pasternak use and who can be called the prototypes of the novel's characters? ...
Added: December 5, 2024
Pavlovets M., В кн.: Метрополия и диаспора: альтернативные/тождественные миры русской литературы ХХ века. Коллективная монография, посвященная памяти профессора Владимира Вениаминовича Агеносова.: М.: Издательская группа "Юрист", 2024. С. 288–302.
The article is devoted to the analysis of Boris Pasternak's poems "Gypsies", "Melchior" and "About Ivan the Great" (1914) as a kind of poetic manifestos of the futuristic group "Centrifuge" ...
Added: June 30, 2024
Афанасьев В. А., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация 2023 Т. 21 № 3 С. 132–146
This article is concerned with translation issues of The Song of Еarendil by J. R. R. Tolkien, the poem included in The Lord of the Rings and incorporated into the narrative with Bilbo as the internal author and Frodo as the listener. The first part of the research provides detailed analysis of the poem contextual ...
Added: November 16, 2023
Nikitenko E., Shagi/Steps 2024 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 107–124
During the Soviet era, numerous works of modern Iranian fiction were translated into Russian, and published in the Soviet Union. The amount of translated works and their thematic range correlated with the domestic agenda and the changes in the Soviet-Iranian relations, as well as with the current state of Iranian Studies in the Soviet Union. ...
Added: September 28, 2023
Королева А. М., Новые российские гуманитарные исследования 2022 Т. 17
The article куыуфкср the writers' and readers' documents in the archive of B. Pasternak in a view of the reception by Russian-speaking contemporaries of his work. The period covered: the end of the 1920s-1960. The theoretical significance is justified by the fact that the work contributes to the study of the reader phenomenon in the Russian ...
Added: January 20, 2023
Kunitsyn G., Новый филологический вестник 2021 № 57 С. 234–245
The problem of the meaning of Christian holidays in the poetic world of
B.L. Pasternak is studied on the example of the cycle “Ural poems”. The issue of the
special functional symbolic meaning of holidays in Pasternak’s work which had previously
only indirectly interested researchers is raised. An attempt is made to formulate
the main functional characteristics of holidays ...
Added: November 15, 2022
Polivanov K., Новое литературное обозрение 2022 Т. 176 № 4 С. 341–344
Review of the book of G. Morev Osip Mandelshtam: fragments of a literary biography. M.: 2022 ...
Added: October 29, 2022
Polivanov K., Русская литература 2022 № 3 С. 243–245
n the article, evidence is presented to support the thesis that B. L. Pasternak’s cycle of poems
dedicated to Pushkin, A Theme with Variations, which quite obviously had suggested the title for the
poet’s fourth book of poetry, Themes and Variations, originated as a poetic response to V. F. Khodasevich’s
poem Episode, that the latter read in late ...
Added: October 29, 2022