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Abstract:

The present collection is dedicated to Alla I. Alieva, a major Russian specialist in folklore and Caucasian studies, DSc in Philology, Director of Research of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who celebrates her anniversary in 2025. The articles, which reveal various issues of folklore, literature, and the history of science, were written by the colleagues and students of this remarkable scholar. The collection also includes a bibliography of the works by Alla I. Alieva, reflecting her research interests and impressive contribution to contemporary philological studies.

Keywords: Alla I. Alieva, folklore, literature, history of science, Caucasian studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Folklore: The Live Memory of Nation

Adam M. Gutov. Genetic Information of Epos

Tamara M. Sadalova. On the Issues of Systematization of Oral Stories by Storytellers on the Performance of the Altai Epic

Tamerlan K. Salbiev. From Epics to Dance: A Magic Staff

Tamara G. Basangova, Farizat H. Gulieva. Mythology of the Hedgehog Image in the Folklore among the Peoples of the North Caucasus

Vladimir L. Klyaus. Transbaikalian Folklore in Australia: Mythological Stories About People with Supernatural Abilities

Yelena V. Minyonok. Peculiarities of Mythological Narratives in the Resettlement Villages of Eastern Siberia

Zarifa B. Tsallagova. Folk Aphorisms as Formulas of Ethnic Education

Svetlana P. Sorokina. Re-exploring the Genre in Folklore Theatre: From Marlowe’s “Tragedy of Faust” to “The Merchant’s Journey to Hell”

How Written Words Reflect Their Era

Alexander B. Kudelin. The Formation of the Novel as a Genre in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Arabic Literature

Vadim V. Polonsky. The Concept of Truth in the Logic of Symbol and Myth: A Heideggerian Perspective

Kazbek K. Sultanov. On the Communicative Aspect of Russian Literature: the Opening of the Caucasus as an Existential Choice

Irina I. Sizova. On the Historical and Literary Genesis of Leo Tolstoy’s Folk Drama “Peter the Baker” (1884, 1894): The Theme of the Repentance of the “Great Sinner”

Veronika B. Zuseva-Özkan. “A Neo-Romantic Fairy Tale” by N. Gumilyov as a “Way Out from Romanticism”

Vera N. Terekhina, Natalia I. Shubnikova-Guseva. The Work of Igor Severyanin as an Integral Phenomenon

Aleksei I. Chagin. “My Soul’s Poems and Pains...” (Alla Golovina’s Poetry)

Maria V. Mikhailova, Yuliya V. Shevchuk. Hero, Space and Time in the Poem “Mikhailo Lomonosov” by N.I. Gagen-Thorn

Lyudmila Yu. Surovova. I.S. Shmelev and B.K. Zaitsev in the Early Years of Emigration (Based on Their Correspondence and Creative Activity)

Daria S. Moskovskaya. The Italian Myth of Soviet Literature

Anastasia G. Gacheva. The Caucasian Topic in Konstantin Chkheidze’s Memoirs “Events, Meetings, Thoughts”

Elizaveta E. Baldanmaksarova. The Image of Saint Ravja and the Originality of Artistic Interpretation of Shambala, the Buddhist Legend, in the Novel “Gegeenten” by the Mongolian Writer G. Mend-Ooyoo

From the Academic History

Marina I. Shcherbakova. The Name of Countess P.S. Uvarova in the Latest Caucasian Studies Research

Diana V. Sokaeva. The Contribution of Academician V.F. Miller and Modern Prospects for Studying Traditional Beliefs of Ossetians

Tatiana V. Govenko. Additional Data on the V.F. Miller’s Caucasian Expedition Conducted in 1883

Vyacheslav A. Biguaa. Academic Heritage of Sergey L. Zukhba

Aleksandra B. Ippolitova, Andrey L. Toporkov. The Secret Case of the “Manuscript Copyist” G.D. Knigolubov

Yury A. Azarov. Russian Émigré Magazine “Art of the Slavs”: Literature, Painting, Folk Art

Elena A. Andrushchenko. “After All, I Was Not Westernizer out of Self-Interest…”: S.N. Syromyatnikov Between East and West

Alla I. Alieva. Bibliographic Index of Works (1961–2025)