Issue 1, 2007 Study of literature Igor N. GoncharovThe preaching of Gregory the Theologian and Cyril of Turov as a verbal ritual Grigoriy A. ZaslavskyYa.B. Knyazhnin’s tragedy «Rosslav» in the historical, literary and cultural context of the early 19th century Tatyana V. Zvereva«Letters of a Russian traveller» by N.M. Karamzin: visual aspects of narration Aleksandr V. Mlechko Mythology of paradise in the «Russian text» of «Modern Notes» (1920-1940) Elena N. DavydovaThe house-motive in the chronotopical structure of I.S. Shmelev’s story «Prayer» Larisa S. Zakhidova About the mythological subtext of Yu. Polyakov’s novel «The Mushroom Tsar» Linguistics A.S Kugajevskiy Avant-garde and absurdity in the works of V. Sorokin as a means of myth interpretation Aleksandr E. Anikin Three ways of Russians beyond the Urals: evidence of language Marina B. TashlykovaQuantitative metaphor as the basis of formation non-spatial values of parametric adjectives Gulya V. Kyshtymova The inventory of vowel phonemes of the Kyzyl dialect of the Khakass language in the comparative aspect Konstantin I. Belousov, Irina Yu. Moïsejeva, Galina G. Moskalchuk Physical and syntactic text structures (on the problem of level isomorphism) Olga P. Sologub Structural and semantic principles of business text organization (on the material of lawsuits and appeals to the official authorities) Review Faina Z. Kanunova A new monograph of A. S. Yanushkevich about V. A. Zhukovsky was published. Scientific life Kovaleva T.I.[Untranslated] Afanasjeva E.M., Hodanen L.A.[Untranslated]