The paper presents an outline of the history of Russian and French cultural alliance, beginning with episodic contacts in the 16th and 17th centuries until the 18th c., which commences a dialogue with France that would ...

The paper discusses employing a highly intertextualized text in translator training. Using an example of a humorous story in Russian, the author describes the advantages of the classroom use of such a text. They encompass: ...

The article reviews the role of obscene vocabulary in Sergei Yesenin’s cycle Moscow Taverns, as well as the problems connected with rendering them into Polish. The material ofthe analysis, Yeseninʼs poetry, is famous for ...

The article discusses the panegyrical ode “To the Polish Felitsa” by the 18th-century Russian poet Dmitry Khvostov, a work belonging to the so-called “Felitsa Cycle”. The first element of the cycle, both chronologically ...

The article considers the artistic idea and devices of Alexander Pushkin’s epigram on Fyodor Tolstoy “the American”, entitled “David the Singer was short...” (1822). Some semantic nuances are explained and clarified.

The article presents the results of an experiment conducted on two groups of students engaged in translating into Polish selected Russian folk tales (already adapted into standard literary Russian and equipped with ...

The article researches the issue of the relevance of poetry in the USSR, using as an example the year 1926, when several literary periodicals simultaneously decided to investigate the attitude of their readers and of poets ...

The paper examines how Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden utilises the apparatus of symbolist ornamental prose, one of the characteristic features of Russian Modernism, while it applies postmodern devices to ...