Letter from the editor
Authors: Burganova Maria A. 
Published: November 2021

Dear readers, We are pleased to present to you Issue 4, 2021, of the scientific and analytical journal Burganov House. The Space of Culture . Upon the recommendation of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission, the journal is included in the List of Leading Peer-reviewed Scien - tific Journals and Publications in which the main sci - entific results of theses for the academic degrees of doctor and candidate of science must be published. The journal publishes scientific articles by lead - ing specialists in various humanitarian fields, doctor - al students, and graduate students. Research areas concern topical problems in multiple areas of cul - ture, art, philology, and linguistics. This versatility of the review reveals the main specificity of the jour - nal, which represents the current state of the cul - tural space. The journal traditionally opens with the Aca - demic Interview rubric. In the issue, we present an outstanding figure of world culture — Nikolai Tsis - karidze, a Member of the Council for Culture and Art under the President of the Russian Federation, People’s Artist of Russia, Rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. His charismatic image personifies the Russian ballet school. The article “The Liar’s Paradox –a wild interation. Part II. Difthong “Aristotel-Anokhin” (continuation)” by E.Menshikova develops the theme of the para - doxes of the modern space of culture. The author explores such concepts as consciousness as a “res - onant system” and various types of thinking, com - paring modernity with the ancient philosophical and cultural tradition. In his article “On the Issue of Organising Space in Book Miniatures of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. 4th-7th Centuries”, M.Bankov analy - ses polychrome miniature in the context of the book creation art. The author believes that the develop - ment of spatial constructions in miniature painting is an indivisible process in which each new stage is derived from the previous one. The views of animal painters of the 19th-20th centuries on the world of wildlife, the factor of the relationship between man and nature, reflected in works of art, are considered by I.Portnova in the ar - ticle “Russian Animalistic Art of the 19th-20th Cen - turies in the Views on the World of Flora and Fauna”. The extensive correspondence of Empress Cathe - rine II with politicians, scientists and cultural figures of Europe during the period of difficult relations be - tween Russia and China is investigated by N.Suraeva in the article “The Image of China in the Corre - spondence of Catherine II”. Particular emphasis is placed on the correspondence between Catherine II and Voltaire. In the article “Architectural Space in Dance as an Artistic-figurative System”, T.Portnova considers the expressive means of dance and architecture, anal - yses the general and the specific in their artistic language, reveals the degree of interaction of ar - chitectural principles with dance drama and chore - ographic composition. In the article “Practice as Research: Creative and Research Practice in the Format of Postgraduate Ed - ucation”, the team of authors, L.Alyabyeva, I.Sakhno and T.Fadeeva, summarise the experience of Euro - pean educational programs and, after their critical understanding, create the author’s concept. The au - thors believe that practice and research have long been inseparable in educational programs in the field of contemporary art and design. In the article “Artistic Potential of Graphic Digi - tal Modelling. The Convergence of Traditional and Multimedia Exhibition Means in the Display of Dig - ital Art Works”, E.Zayeva-Burdonskaya and D.Kar - dashenko study the artistic potential of computer graphic modelling in the space of contemporary ar - tistic creation and artistic exhibition systems. The authors provide examples of contemporary exhibi - tions that implement the complex convergence of traditional and multimedia exhibition means in the display of digital art works. The publication is addressed to professionals specialising in the theory and practice of the fine arts and philology and all those interested in the arts and culture.