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• Russian literary history for advanced readers, with plenty of textual illustrations: Lukyanova, I.: Once upon a time there was Russian literature: From Ancient Rus' to the XX century. Publishing House AST.2023. Moscow. Pp. 348. ISBN 978-5-17-154945-9

  Ferenc Váradi

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  Lukyanova's book was published in 2023. The author is a journalist who studies Russian literature and its history, and reviews it in a rather unique way. The purpose of the review is to determine what genre Lukyanova's book can be classified as, and to find out what its uniqueness is manifested in.

• The Cult of Pushkin in the Context of Popular Literature Over the Course of a Century (1837–1937): Kalavszky Zsófia: A totális Puskin. Populáris műfajok a Puskin-kultuszban, 1837–1937 [Zsófia Kalavszky: Total Pushkin. Popular genres shaping Pushkin’s cult between 1837–1937]. Budapest, Reciti, 2024, 398 p. ISBN: 978-963-672-015-5

  Ildikó Regéczi

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  The publication of Zsófia Kalavszky’s monograph is a landmark event in the field of Russian studies in Hungary. In this thorough scholarly work, Kalavszky explores the nature of the Pushkin cult, offering important findings into the century following the Russian poet’s death and tracing his evolution into an iconic figure. Rather than focusing on commemorative texts by literary giants, she ventures into the realm of popular literature to track the shifts in the myth surrounding Pushkin, reflecting changes occurring in specific historical eras and within the receiving audience. The monograph conveys in-depth expertise in a way that makes it an engaging read for a broad audience.

• Turgenev Today: On the Problem of Perception

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  Irina Belyaeva

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  The article deals with the question of how Turgenev’s work is perceived by the modern
  reader. There are identified aspects related to the complexity of understanding the writer’s
  texts, which are largely due to stereotypes that have developed in the culture of perception,
  and are also features of his poetics. There are different ways of new interpretations of Turgenev’s
  famous texts – those of the novels “Fathers and Sons” and “The Noble Nest”. In “Fathers
  and Sons” the idea of reconciliation with contradictions is emphasized, and ‘The Noble’s
  Nest” is considered a successful social project in literature. The article briefly highlights
  the main stages of Turgenev’s popularizing Russian culture in the West.