bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Application of machine learning methods for the classification of asteroid resonance motion
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Galushina Tatyana Yu. , Nikolaeva Elizaveta A. ,   University of Tartu, Krasavin Dmitriy S. ,   Tomsk State University, Lenter Oksana N. ,   Tomsk State University
Published: February 2023

When studying the resonant asteroid dynamics, it is necessary to classify time series of critical arguments on circulation, libration, or mixed case depending on their behavior. It is logical to use modern methods of machine learning to automatize this process. Earlier, a similar problem was solved for artificial satellites of the Earth. The purpose of this paper is to adapt the software attended for distinguishing resonant and nonresonant motion of satellites to solving asteroid dynamics problems. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to modify the program code and to train the created model on time rows obtained during the study of the asteroid orbital evolution. Operation of the modified software can be divided into three stages. At the first stage, to simplify the model-classifier, we make coding of time series of asteroid resonant arguments by vectors of lower dimension using an artificial neural network - an autoencoder. The second stage includes automatic clustering time series of asteroid resonant arguments by the HDBSCAN method (Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) and their manual labeling to learn the classifier. At the third stage, based on the obtained training set, the artificial neural network-classifier is learned. The results of the classifier operation are estimated by visual comparison of graphs of the time series and received assessments. We may conclude that the classifier works correctly in most cases; some inaccuracies are observed in case of extreme amplitude and in the mixed case when libration passes to circulation. Contribution of the authors: the authors contributed equally to this article. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.
Conformal mapping of a half-plane onto a periodic polygon of half-plane type
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Kolesnikov Ivan A.
Published: February 2023

We consider countable polygons - simply connected half-plane-type domains with translation symmetry along the real axis and a boundary consisting of line segments. The method for determining the parameters in the Christoffel-Schwartz integral extends to the case of a conformal mapping of a half-plane onto a counting-gon.
A study of the structure and properties of the metal matrix composite materials obtained by a method of direct laser growing
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Promakhov Vladimir V. , Matveev Aleksey E. ,   Tomsk State University, Schulz Nikita A. ,   Tomsk State University, Bakhmat Vladislav R. ,   Tomsk State University, Dronov Filipp Yu. ,   Tomsk State University, Turanov Timur E. ,   Tomsk State University
Published: February 2023

Due to mechanical properties, Inconel family alloys are proven to be functional materials that are used at elevated temperatures in chemically aggressive environments and under high loads. Development of additive technologies has revealed a potential of these alloys as an initial powder raw material for additive manufacturing machines. In this work, the application of metal matrix composite materials in a direct laser growing technology is studied. The technology of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis is used to manufacture the composite material. The study results show that the application of metal matrix materials in the technology of direct laser growing allows one to increase wettability of ceramic particles by a matrix metal. As a result, the quality of particle-matrix borders is improved, the porosity is decreased, and the uniformity of the distribution of particles in the matrix is increased. The structure of the obtained materials is represented by Inconel 625 matrix alloy and inclusions of TiB2 ceramics. The average size of the ceramic particles is less than 300 nm. It is shown that adding to Inconel 625 powder of a composite metal matrix SHS powder of NiTi-TiB2 in an amount of 5 wt% leads to an increase in the microhardness of the material by 1.5 times relative to the materials obtained from pure Inconel 625. At the same time, there is an increase in the ultimate strength of the materials up to 920 MPa and a decrease in the ductility by 15% relative to the samples made of pure Inconel 625 alloy.
About fc-nil-good formal matrix rings
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Norbosambuev Tsyrendorzhi D. , Timoshenko Egor A. ,   Tomsk State University
Published: February 2023

In 2018, Abdolyusefi, Ashrafi, and Chen gave a definition of a 2-nil-good ring element in their work, generalizing the notion of a graceful ring element introduced two years earlier by Kalugeryan and Lam, as well as the definition of a 2-nil-good ring. In the same work, it was shown that the Morita context ring, i.e. a formal matrix ring of the second order is 2-nil-good if the rings over which it is considered are themselves 2-nil-good. In this paper, we generalize further, defining k-nil-good elements and k-nil-good rings, and state a condition under which a formal matrix ring of an arbitrary finite order is k-nil-good.
Analysis of some methods of integration of cells in a mechanical metamaterial
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Akhmetshin Linar R. ,   Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Smolin Igor Yu. ,   Tomsk State University; Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: February 2023

In this paper, the influence of integration of unit cells on the mechanical behavior of the sample made of mechanical tetrachiral metamaterial is studied by using mathematical modeling. A chiral structure of the cells provides unusual mechanical behavior of the metamaterial, namely, twisting under uniaxial loading. Two methods of integration of unit cells in the metamaterial are discussed: joining and overlapping. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are described. It has been found that in one of the cases, the rotation of the system of two cells is carried out around the center of mass, which favorably affects the stability of the system, but decreases the rotation angle. In another case, the absence of one of the faces leads to the rotation which is not relative to the center of mass and results in the asymmetric strain figure and instability of the system. Such instability is caused by disproportionate arrangement of the cells in the plane, which has been shown using the examples of the systems with two and nine cells. For the system of nine unit cells, both methods of integration lead to a symmetric rotation about two perpendicular axes. Further research of this topic is supposed to allow one to create metamaterials and structures with programmable mechanical behavior.
Numerical solution of the direct problem of electroimpedance tomography in a complete electrode formulation
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Afanas’eva Anna A. , Starchenko Alexander V. ,   Tomsk State University
Published: February 2023

This work is related to one of the methods of medical imaging - electrical impedance tomography (EIT). A feature of the considered two-dimensional mathematical formulation for the direct EIT problem is the use of an elliptic type equation with piecewise constant coefficients and a special integro-differential boundary condition at the contact boundary of the electrodes. For an approximate solution of the problem under consideration, a numerical method was developed using unstructured grids, the finite volume method for barycentric cells, and the Gaussian elimination method with the choice of the main element. The validation of the method was performed on a known analytical solution.
On the number of eigenvalues of a model operator on a one-dimensional lattice
Authors:   Karshi state University, Imomov Azam A. , Bozorov Islom N. ,   Samarkand State University, Khurramov Abdimazhid M. ,   Samarkand State University
Published: February 2023

A model operator hμ(k), k∈(-π,π], corresponding to the Hamiltonian of a system of two arbitrary quantum particles on a one-dimensional lattice with a special dispersion function is considered. The function describes the transfer of a particle from site to sites interacting using a short-range attraction potential νμ, μ = (μ0,μ1,μ2,μ3) ∈ ℝ+4. The detailed descriptions of changes in the number of eigenvalues of the energy operator hμ(k), k∈(-π,π], relative to values of the particle interaction vector and the total quasi-momentum k ∈ Т of the system of two particles is presented.
Development of a Protection System Against Hostile Mergers and Acquisitions
Authors:   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Voskanyan Roza O.
Published: February 2023

The effective development of the economy depends on the level of competition. The development of a system of protection against hostile mergers and acquisitions contributes to the creation of a highly competitive environment, forms more comfortable conditions for business. In this study, the author aims to develop this protection system through the use of a two-class system of a company’s equity capital formation. At present, in the Russian Federation, the two-class system of a company’s equity capital formation using multi-voting shares has been little studied. This allows judging about the theoretical significance of the study, since the obtained results develop the theory and instruments of financial management. The author substantiates the low interest of business angels and venture investors in protecting a young company from mergers and acquisitions, since the latter are one of the main ways for an investor to exit a young business. The author reveals that, for the first time, the element of a company’s equity capital in the form of multi-voting shares acts as an instrument of protection against mergers and acquisitions; this element does not create additional risks for founders to lose control of their business by attracting additional financing of equity capital. In this regard, the author proposes to use multivoting shares held by founders of the business as an additional instrument of protection against hostile mergers and acquisitions of young companies.
The role of leadership in workplace diversity management
Authors:   Dennis Osadebay University, Nwani Onyeabor Chuks , Okolie Ugo Chuks ,   Dennis Osadebay University
Published: February 2023

Although the issue of workplace diversity management has attracted the attention of many researchers and practitioners, studies on the role of leadership in workplace diversity management are still limited especially in developing nations, Nigeria inclusive. The objective of this paper is to examine the role of leadership in workplace diversity management and to contribute to the field of cross-cultural management. The paper utilizes the method of qualitative analysis and synthesis of scientific literature as it relies on secondary data collected from documentations through published and unpublished books, journal articles, and conference proceedings. It also relies on the standpoint theory that a group’s experiences create a general and permanent perspective of an immense situation, but without personal experiences one’s standpoint cannot become truly comprehensible. The paper therefore concludes that diversity management skills are required by every organization in order to harness the resources that the employees have brought to an organization. It is the active and conscious development of strategic management processes of accepting and using differences and similarities as means of adding value to an organization.
The synergy of the development of the digital services system
Authors:   Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Usova Natalia V.
Published: February 2023

The study of various processes and phenomena from the point of view of a systematic approach allows not only identifying relations and points of growth, but also developing measures aimed at the formation and realization of their potential. The observed processes of digital transformation are also reflected in the service system. The presence of a rather fragmentary theoretical basis of the digital services system and the lack of scientific works on the synergy of the digital services system make it necessary to study these issues and develop theoretical provisions. The aim of this study is to identify the synergetic effects of the digital services system. According to the results of the study, the author proposes a category “synergy of the digital services system”, which is based on the idea that this is a cumulative effect obtained during the interaction of elements of the digital services system; supplements the directions of evaluating the synergetic effect of the digital services system; and suggests digital efficiency, which is expressed in the optimal use of digital infrastructure and the availability of an appropriate level of digital skills formation of all participants in the digital services system; presents the characteristics of the key aspects of the synergetic approach to the digital services syste, namely, non-linearity and multivariance, openness, the ability to self-organize, disequilibrium and dissipativity; identifies the synergetic effects of the digital services system (transparency, process control, integration as a whole, as well as horizontal, vertical and intersectoral integration, resource savings due to economies of scale, intra-product synergy, development of the digital space and digital marketing communications, GDP growth and an increase in the digital market share in it, personnel transformation, expansion of the types of services provided in the digital space, increasing the availability of services); and formulates the main directions of synergetic development of the digital services system. The author adheres to the point of view that further synergetic development of the digital services system is possible both evolutionarily and revolutionarily. In particular, the strengthening of global challenges and the emergence of non-standard situations at the national or global levels can become catalysts for the accelerated development of the digital services system. In turn, changes in the system itself can be of an intensive or extensive nature. Thus, extensive changes are associated with the growth of the number of participants in the digital services system and the emergence of new markets. The intensive development of the system is due to qualitative transformations, namely, the withdrawal of noncompetitive companies from the market, as well as the unification of several players in the market in order to ensure a certain level of power in the market.
Overcoming gaps in penal law through interpretation by the judiciary: theory and practice
Authors:   Kuzbass Institute of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, Khramov Alexander A.
Published: February 2023

The relevance of the article is due to the lack of unified limits and conditions of application of interpretation of norms of criminal-executive legislation to overcome gaps existing in it in the theory of criminal-executive law. It is established that in spite of some isolation in the legal literature the analogy of law and analogy of law as the ways of overcoming gaps from the norms interpretation, in the legal literature so far there is no common opinion of scholars concerning the essence of these legal phenomena. Based on the analysis of the opinions of various scholars, it is concluded that the lack of a unified position in this area is due solely to different approaches (narrow and wide) to the understanding of the term "interpretation". This circumstance does not affect the process of overcoming gaps by means of analogy because in all cases of applying analogy it is initially required to find a similar norm, to clarify its meaning and content or the meaning and content of general provisions of a branch of law, i.e. to apply interpretation. The article notes the peculiarities of interpretation of the criminal-executive legislation to overcome the existing gaps in it. In contrast to other branches of the "criminal cycle", the subjects of execution of criminal sanctions (article 16 of the CEC of the RF) and only in the second place - the court - are called to carry out such activities. However, with the adoption of relevant legislation at the end of the last century, it was the court that was given a real opportunity to form a kind of "precedent", which it retains to this day. In this regard, judicial interpretation of the norms of criminal-executive legislation to overcome the existing gaps in it is important in the context of the implementation of the principle of legality in the execution of criminal sanctions, as well as the achievement of its goals. Specific court decisions on overcoming gaps in the criminal-executive legislation (in the field of labour of convicts, bringing them to disciplinary responsibility) are analysed. Taking into account the provisions on the application of analogy of law and analogy of law developed by the general theory of law, as well as the requirements of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the conclusion is made that today there are cases of expansive interpretation of the rules, which leads to the violation of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen. At the same time, the author allows an expansive interpretation to overcome gaps by analogy, if it does not change or improve a person's legal position, as it is consistent with the law and does not contradict part 3 of article 55 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Legal matter
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Lebedev Vladimir M.
Published: February 2023

Legal matter is a type of social matter. It, like any form of matter, is developing according to the general laws. In this sense, we can speak about its movement. Lawyers declare a legal norm the primary basis of legal matter. Its structure is determined, as a rule, in connection with the role predetermined by the legislators. However, the theory of law gives no answer to the question of how with what force this norm starts to be implemented. It is concluded that in the structure of the legal norm, it is necessary to distinguish between two elements: the norm established by the state or the body authorized by it and the legal energy necessary for its vital activity. They are mandatory for any legal norm and constitute its twofold beginning. The absence of one of them makes the norm insignificant, unable to generate the consequences for the occurrence of which it has been developed. The author of the article attempts to analyze the mechanism of legal regulation, considering the structure of the legal norm. The mechanism for legal regulation involves both the existence of a legal norm and the movement of those elements of the content which ensure its implementation. The rule of any legal norm is always static. To ensure its functions, it is necessary to have a certain internal impulse, i.e. the release of legal energy concentrated in this norm. Without the analysis of this phenomenon, it is impossible to speak about any aspect of the content of the legal regulation mechanism. In all likelihood, it is legitimate to study the features of the mechanism of legal regulation depending on the system of law, its individual branch, and possibly the institution and another set of legal norms. It is difficult to construct a single mechanism of legal regulation specifically for private and public law, institutions of labor and social security. Moreover, the division of Russian law into branches, as it is known from history, was made in order to create the necessary working conditions for the legislators and law enforcers. Science only justified, substantiated to a certain extent, the arbitrary approach to the creation of a system of law and its individual institutions. Coordinated court approval of legal prescriptions, which implement the infliction of penalty mechanism and the punitive and other corrective measures provided by them.
Social theories of causality of terrorism offences
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Akhmedshin Ramil L. , Akhmedshina Natalya V. ,   Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics
Published: February 2023

The article deals with the algorithm for assessing the research value of individual theories of causality of terrorism offences. Various research schools developed several main directions, which explain the reasons for terrorism offences. Mostly, these theories are convincing both theoretically and empirically, and it is problematic to explain many of them. The result of the study is the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of social theories of the causality of terrorism offences. In the study, we used such general scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, and a system -structural method. We also used such specific scientific methods as biographical analysis, statistical analysis, comparative-historical and expert assessment. The article comes to several conclusions below. Among the factors, with the help of which it is advisable to determine the value of the theory of causality of terrorism offences were political and doctrinal biases. Political and doctrinal biases were among the factors by which it is advisable to determine the value of the theory of causality for terrorist-related crimes. The political bias of a criminological theory is compliance with the needs and perception of the world of the most active social groups that form the social request to the science from society. The doctrinal bias of the criminological theory is the conformity to the interests and the main provisions of the doctrine as a source of law and legal science. The theory of anomy by E. Durkheim cannot apply to terrorism. Within the framework of this theory, one of the basic statements is the idea that crime can be a factor in integrating society, the strengthening of social ties. It is difficult to see an integrative social component in modern revolutionary separatist and expansionist. The theories of differentiated communication of E. Sutherland and D. Cressey concerning terrorism are not applicable. The principal postulate of this theory says that the more a person interacts with the criminal environment, the higher is the probability of his antisocial infestation. However, the thesis that most terrorists come from a criminal or close to a criminal environment is not confirmed by anything, even if we talk only about the ordinary members of terrorist organizations. The research vector, focused on the multifactorial analysis of criminological theories, will contribute to their deeper scientific understanding at the theoretical level, and more effective application at the practical one. One of the main ideas is the thesis about the targeting of each theory of the causality of terrorism offences.
Justice as the primary basis of equality of all before the law and court in the criminal procedure of Russia
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Azarov Vladimir A. ,   Omsk State University named after F.M. Dostoevsky
Published: February 2023

The article presents the results of the historiographic studies of the principle of equality of all before the law and court in the criminal procedural legislation of Russia. Considering the importance of the above principle for the formation of the authority of the judiciary, the author substantiates its fundamental role in the assessment by the population of the country of the presence and reflection in the law of justice as the core category of the genotype of the Russian nation. The positions of opponents of the legislative decision about the reflection of the category of «objective truth» in the text of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation are analyzed, the inconsistency and even the perniciousness of introducing the artificial concept of «legal justice» into the theory and practice are shown. The comparative characteristics of the textual expression of the principle of equality of all before the law and court in various legislative acts of the Russian Federation are given. On this basis, the preferred wording of this principle in the Criminal Procedure Code has been formulated. The segments of the content of the concept of justice in criminal proceedings are interpreted. From the standpoint of social justice, the redundancy of the presence in Chapter 52 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation of a large detachment of representatives of all branches of state power of Russia, endowed with additional privileges in criminal proceedings, is shown and commented on. The directions of changing the procedure for criminal proceedings against state and municipal employees, as well as the limits of their inviolability in the sphere of activity of criminal justice bodies, have been identified and substantiated. The evidence for the expediency of the direct participation of federal judges of courts of general jurisdiction in resolving the issues of restriction, suspension and deprivation of immunity of state and municipal employees for their criminal prosecution is given. The history and causes are studied, the initiators and conditions for the creation of the above section of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation are revealed, an assessment of its compliance with the typology and traditional ideology of the national criminal procedure is given. The most suitable options for legislative solutions that allow minimizing reputational losses for all branches of state power in cases of bringing their representatives to criminal liability are discussed and selected. A scheme of legislative work to optimize the content of the above section of the Criminal Procedure Code and to strengthen the principle of equality of all before the law and court and justice in the sphere of activity of criminal justice bodies is proposed and substantiated.
About the question of referring the Russian legal system to the Romano-Germanic legal family
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Haag Ludmila V.
Published: February 2023

Russian legal system is like the legal systems of the countries of the Romano-Germanic legal family on formal grounds. The Russian legal system, as well as the legal systems of the Romano-Germanic legal family, are characterized by such features as the influence of Roman law on the formation of the legal system; recognition of a normative legal act as the main source of law, among which the law occupies the supreme position; codification of the current legislation; division into public and private law and division of law into branches. When writing the article, the author used the following methods: system analysis, dialectical, logical, comparative, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction. She got the following results: - the Romano-Germanic legal family developed regardless of the tendencies of increasing the centralization of power and the achievement of political goals; - civilizational flows from Europe and Asia influenced the development of Russia. The Golden Horde also had a considerable influence. In society, relations of citizenship were established, as in the East, and not those of vassalage, as in the West. The main difference between the formation of Russian society and the West lies in the fact that in the Russian state there was a steady process of leveling the individual, destroying the autonomy of society and complete subordination of the subjects to the power of the Grand Duke and Tsar; - the most important feature of the Romano-Germanic legal family is the reception of Roman law; - Roman law had less influence on the Russian legal system; - the peculiarity of historical development led to the differences in the essence, content and structure of Russian law and the legal systems of the Romano-Germanic legal family; - the Romano-Germanic legal family is based on natural law. A clear division into private and public law and branch division is typical; - the law in the countries of the Romano-Germanic legal system is considered as a means of maximally clear presentation of the rules of law based on natural law principles that ensure their uniform implementation and application; - in the Russian legal system since the days of the USSR, the importance of a law was the most natural way of creating the law, which at the same time is identified with the will of the ruling class, which does not always meet the real needs of society, its level of development; - a tendency to legal nihilism has always characterized legal consciousness in Russia; - the presence of formal and legal similarities between the Russian legal system and legal systems of the Romano-Germanic legal family makes it possible to move toward their rapprochement not only in terms of formal but also on substantive characteristics. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
Regional literary history as an object and construct (Book Review: Sozina, E.K. (Ed.) (2021) IstoriyaLiteratury Urala. XIX Vek: V2 Kn. [A History of Ural Literature. 19th Century: In 2 Books]. Moscow: Izdatelskiy Dom YaSK)
Authors:   Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russian Federation), Kiselev Vitaly S.
Published: February 2023

The article analyses the research conception of the new academic A History of Ural Literature. Attention is focused on the original methodological approaches to the construction of the 19th century literary history of the region: attitude to the general Russian literary process, modelling of historical and geographical dynamics, account of the multinationality and types of literary systems (folklore, medieval literature, literature of the new European type).
Stepan Shevyryov’s Libretto on the Ballad by Vasily Zhukovsky (Opera Vadim, or the Awakening of the Twelve Sleeping Maidens by Alexey Verstovsky)
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Berezkina Svetlana V.
Published: February 2023

The article focuses on the history of S.P. Shevyryov’s work on the libretto for A.N. Verstovsky’s opera Vadim, or The Awakening of the Twelve Sleeping Maidens, staged in Moscow in 1832. Shevyryov’s parody-polemic rendition of V.A. Zhukovsky’s ballad reflected his Italian theatrical experiences. The changes introduced by the librettist to the ballad plot were not accepted by Verstovsky, who rejected Shevyryov’s composition. The article reviews the sources on the texts from Shevyryov’s libretto, which has not been preserved in its entirety.
Altai Hydropoetics: Rivers
Authors:   Altai State Pedagogical University, Bogumil Tatiana A.
Published: February 2023

The article explores the water sphere of the Altai text (with the exception of lakes). The research methodology is based on works on local supertexts by representatives of the Tartu-Moscow school, as well as adherents of the geocultural and geopoetic approach. A range of motifs and images based on the real qualities of the object under study, on cultural tradition, and on archetypal foundations is revealed. The Katun and the Biya differ in their origin, color of water, specific flow, and sound. In a work of fiction, all the real characteristics of these and other Altai rivers often underlie the metaphor of personification. The formation of one of the main rivers of Siberia, the Ob, by the confluence of the Katun and the Biya, is reflected in literature through a visual image - the color difference between two rivers in the channel of the third, and an anthropomorphic image - the union / conflict of a man and a woman, two women. Chuyskiy Trakt is an analogue of the Chuya and the Katun. The white color of the mountain rivers is identified with milk and gray hair, giving rise to zoomorphic and anthropomorphic metaphors. The noise of the mountain rivers is interpreted as the cry of the beast, crying and speech, including artistic and human ones. The flow of water is associated with the passage of time, a turbulent current with a difficult historical moment, the immutability of the flow with eternity. Especially frequent is the chronotope of a river crossing associated with a crisis moment in the life of a person and/or society. Metonymic substitutions of a river and a crossing according to the pars pro toto principle, and vice versa, are based on a borderline - a feature common for them. The border concentrates around itself plots related to the implementation/impossibility of contact, changes. Therefore, not only the crossing of the river, but also the path along the river is accompanied by corresponding events. Swimming in the river is endowed with adventurous, epistemological, aesthetic functions. Rivers allow differentiating space and navigating in it. Small rivers are usually associated with the concepts of homeland and childhood. The noted semantics are universal for the most part. The territorial attachment of these meanings arises due to toponymic markers. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
At the Origins of Historical Imagology: Isaac Newton’s Nature-Philosophical Mythography. Translation and Commentaries
Authors:   Institute of Developmental Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Sharov Konstantin S.
Published: February 2023

The paper explores Isaac Newton’s understanding of the origins of historical imagology. In his study of imagology as practice, Newton proved to be not only a historian and natural philosopher, but also as a mythographer. He attempted a comprehensive taxonomic and chronological analysis of the pagan (gentile) deities of the ancient Mediterranean peoples. From Newton’s point of view, pagan religions, myths and poetry associated with them, were the foundations of historical imagology as a practice of interpreting the images of “foreign peoples” in the ancient world. The paper contains commented fragments of the author’s translation from Latin into Russian of a number of Newton’s archival works on mythography and the origins of imagology. The translation from Latin into Russian is made for the first time. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
The Kingdom of Naples and Russia at the Beginning of the 19th Century: Based on the Correspondence of the Bulgakov Brothers
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Poplavskaya Irina A.
Published: February 2023

The article examines the activities of the Russian diplomatic mission in Naples in 1802-1808 based on the correspondence between brothers Alexander and Konstantin Bulgakov. In accordance with the tropological methodology of the historian Hayden White, tragic and novel metanarratives are distinguished in describing the relationship between the Kingdom of Naples, Russia, and the countries of Western Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. The narration of the events in accordance with the tragic plot reveals the confrontation between the hero and the world, Napoleon and the coalition of European states led by Austria, Britain, and Russia. At the same time, the transformation of the tragedy into the novel in historical terms presupposes a change in the established world order after the end of the era of the Napoleonic Wars, which the decisions of the Congress of Vienna consolidated in 18141815. The basis of the plot in the selected metanarratives is the life of Ferdinand IV, the king of Naples, and his family; Napoleon’s military actions in Italy; diplomatic and military assistance to Naples from Russia and the life of Russians in Naples and Palermo; the events of the Patriotic War of 1812; the messianic role of Emperor Alexander in the victory over Napoleon’s army. The influence of the actions of the allied forces in 1813-1815 and the decisions of the Congress of Vienna on the emergence of national liberation movements in Italy and the subsequent unification of the country is revealed. The spatial centers of the Bulgakovs’ epistolary works are Naples, Palermo, Rome, the capitals of four empires (Paris, Vienna, London, Petersburg), and related historical figures (King Ferdinand IV and his wife Maria Carolina of Austria (sister of Marie Antoinette, the French queen), Napoleon, Joseph Bonaparte, Joachim Murat, Austrian Emperor Francis II, Russian Emperor Alexander I, Pope Pius VII, Admiral and Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Naples John Acton, Russian envoys in Naples and Rome A.Ya. Italinsky and sine, and others. The article analyzes the conceptual sphere and poetics of the “Neapolitan” text of Russian literature. In the letters, the image of Naples is presented through the situation of a meeting of Southern and Northern Europe, Naples and Petersburg, monarchy and republic, Catholicism and Orthodoxy, history and modernity. Naples is perceived as a special communicative space associated with the diplomatic activities of both brothers, with their circle of communication, and aesthetically with a private letter as a kind of an ego-document. The perception of Naples as an island state, as an “earthly paradise at the foot of a volcano”, as a city of the Lazzaroni and carnival culture brings the correspondence between the Bulgakov brothers close with descriptions of this city in Russian travelogues of the late 18th - first third of the 19th centuries. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
The poetics of the carnation: The word and the image in Russian poetry from Trediakovsky to Brodsky (in the context of European tradition). Part 2
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Polilova Vera S.
Published: February 2023

The article outlines the use of the word gvozdika [eng. ‘carnation’] ('flower of the genus Dianthus’) in the language of Russian poetry. Part Two of the article demonstrates that the Russian poetry of the 18th - early 19th centuries features carnations sporadically and only within certain lyrical contexts borrowed from Western lyrical poetry, mostly as an element of an idyllic floral catalogue or as part of the antithesis that opposes wild and noble decorative flowers. In the second quarter and mid-19th century, the flower emerges in new poetic circumstances: since the traditional connection of floral imagery to the erotic theme is renewed, the carnation begins to epitomize passionate love. The article dwells on the poetic representations of the carnation in the poetry by Vasily Trediakovsky, Mikhail Muravyov, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Yermil Kostrov, Vasily Pushkin, Semen Bobrov, Vasily Zhukovsky, Anton Delvig, Aleksey Merzlyakov, Pyotr Vyazemsky, and others. Both the antique and the decorative-garden connotations of the carnation are brought together in Pyotr Vyazemsky’s poem “K podruge” (1815), based on a playful alternation between an Epicurean-Horatian and “domestic” tones. The poet combines two planes - that of the real and the symbolic/poetic garden, and if the carnation can refer to both, then the myrtle - only to the second. The author also examines a variety of contexts where the carnation is adjacent to the rose in poetic texts. This juxtaposition is not accidental, since the flowers are united by common attributes (colour, fragrance, expressive beauty), which also suggests a motif of rivalry between the rose and the carnation in many poems. The similarity of the two flowers also explains the fact that the carnation appears in poetic contexts as a substitute for the rose. Since the second quarter - the middle of the 19th century, the carnation is associated with love and erotic motifs, typical of the rose. This symbolism in poetry is consistent with the main meaning of the carnation in the “language of flowers”, where the wild carnation is a sign of love languor, although the process of transferring the traditional meanings of the rose to the carnation is still more important. Finally, the author analyses the rhyme gvozdika: diko and shows that it, together with its variations (gvozdika/gvozdik: dikiy/dik, etc., also in the reverse order), belongs to the set of exceptionally stable rhyme pairs in the Russian poetic tradition. The author declares no conflicts of interests. The author expresses her deep gratitude to A.S. Belousova, A.A. Dobritsyn, A. Shele, N.V Pertsov, and I.A. Pilshchikov, who read the manuscript for inaccuracies and made valuable suggestions. Many thanks to M.V. Oslon for advice and assistance.
Literary and musical synthesis in modern foreign literature: Works of Johann Sebastian Bach as urtext
Authors:   V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Norets Maxim V. , Elkan Olga B. ,   Crimean University of Culture, Art and Tourism
Published: February 2023

The article presents the results of the analytical work with the verbal texts of modern foreign prosaists, poets and Johann Sebastian Bach’s music texts. Inn the opinion of the authors of the research, through centuries, works by Bach inspire representatives of different branches of art to look for new instruments for achieving intermediavity of art works and a high level of its synesthesia. One of the basic categories in the context of synthesis of arts is “musicality” as a reflection of the processes of using traditional music instruments and techniques while creating literary texts. Bach’s works themselves turn out to be a very important step in the development of the tradition of literary-music synthesis - Bach used the means, firstly, of musical rhetoric baroque to gain such synthesis. An even more interesting fact is that the very heritage of Bach appeared to be one of the most popular “objects” of musical-ization of the literary text. In the analyzed works of William Coales, Gabriel Josipovici, Richard Powers, Thomas Bernhard, George Tabori, Dieter Thomas Kuhn, Nancy Huston, Anna Enquist, the authors of the article discover Bach’s forebasis, a kind of an urtext, that allows considering the mentioned literary texts to be a highly representative material for solving the problems of the synthetic character of the art culture of the 21st century that indeed requires a deep reflection. Among the results of today’s exponential development of electronic technologies, there exists one important factor in the realization of art peoples’ centuries-old expectations - the forming of the possibility for the emergence (rather massive already) ofworks of art whose creation would involve different types and art forms. On the one hand, this factor makes it necessary to analyze the historical perspective, the evolution of the methods and models of synthesis of arts some authors create; on the other, however paradoxical it may seem, it seems to give a new impulse to experiments of writers, musicians, artists, who try, even remaining in general within the “traditional” boundaries of the types of their art (literature, music, art consequently), to actively use artistic means traditional for these types of art for achieving the effect of crossing the boundaries of “only” literature, music or art. This trend seems to be particularly noticeable in modern European literature. The aim of the given article is to identify the specific instruments of modern foreign prosaists who choose Bach’s music texts as the urtexts of their literary works. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.
Muslims and the Muslim world in the works of Anton Chekhov
Authors:   Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I. Y. Yakovlev, Shatunov Yuri A.
Published: February 2023

The article provides a brief overview of the ideas about Islam and its adherents in Russian public thought of the 19th - early 20th centuries, as well as the policy of the Russian state in relation to this religion. Against this background, the characteristics given by Anton Chekhov to Muslim peoples at different stages of his work in prose and letters to friends and relatives are considered. Most often Chekhov’s works mention Turks, Tatars, Persians, less often Afghans, Circassians, Chechens, the Kirghiz. The development of the level of representation of an ethnic group is closely related to its estimated dynamics. If the ethnonym “Tatar” is often given a negative connotation, episodic characters in the writer’s stories are already devoid of negative characteristics, and the unnamed Tatar, the main character of the story “In Exile,” is a positive character. Contrasting his views with the egoistic anarchism of the exiled settler Semyon Chekhov in an artistic form embodies the idea of the opposition of individualism of the West and Eastern community. Chekhov’s experience of communication with real Muslims is reflected in the book Sakhalin Island and in his epistolary works. Objective assessments and respect for the Tatar people prevail here. In letters sent to relatives on the way to Sakhalin, Chekhov describes Volga and Siberian foreigners positively, as good, respectable, modest people “better than Russians,” according to a Russian assessor. In his texts, the writer actively used ethnonyms, ethnonymic adjectives, ethnophaulisms, ethnic stereotypes, images of representatives of Muslim peoples. The literary techniques Chekhov used to describe Muslim issues include ethnonymic synonyms and mixed ethnic, religious, class, and professional affiliations. When describing his characters, Chekhov pays much less attention to confessional differences in comparison with ethnic ones. In Islam itself, he sees no threat, but shares the popular opinion about the civilizational “backwardness” of the Muslim world. Asian stereotypes are represented by aggressive and wild Afghans, Persians, Circassians, and quite “decent Kyrgyz.” The characters’ traits largely depend on the genre of the work and the degree of detail of the image. The study of ethno-religious motifs in Chekhov’s works shows that his attitude to a person is always more positive than to a community, and the ethnic and confessional stereotypes he uses are grouped not so much around a nation, rather around an ethnonym (confessiononym). Such ethnic and confessional stereotypes can be classified as nominalistic, that is, they actively function in the culture, but lose their genetic connection with the corresponding community. The author declares no conflicts of interests.