Issue 4, 2013 Study of folklore Kuznetsova Vera StanislavovnaLegends about the overthrow of Satan from Heavens: motifs of the Slavic Folk Bible in the handwritten book tradition Study of literature Stylistic devices in characterizing the Smolensk Princes Rostislaviches in the 12th Century Kiev ChronicleMelnichuk Valentina Aleksandrovna Shunkov Aleksandr ViktorovichThe literary nature of the 17th century documentary texts («A Village Constable of a Falconry way») Sevastianova Svetlana KlimentievnaRe-consecration in Patriarch Nikon’s interpretation Bagration-Mukhranely Irina LeonidovnaThe work written by Metropolitan Eugene Bolkhovitinov about Georgia Savchenkova Tatyana PavlovnaA.P. Zhilina’s album as a source of new data on P.P. Ershov’s creative biography and the cultural environment of Tobolsk in the 1839 – 1841 years Sazhenina Ekaterina ViktorovnaThe plot of the travel and its modifications in the poem «Who lives well in Russia?» by N.A. Nekrasov Sizova Irina IgorevnaThe history of the text of the dramatic adaptation of the old legend about Tsar Haggai by L.H. Tolstoy Makarova Elena Antoninovna«The Siberian Collection» of N.M. Yadrintsev in the aspect of the developing book-writing and publishing in Siberia at the turn of the 20th century Shastina Tatiana PetrovnaGorny Altai in N.M. Yadrintsev’s publicism Safonova Ekaterina AnatolievnaMotif of a way in Nikolay Otsup’s early lyrics Adam Evgenia Albertovna«The three Sisters» by A.P. Chekhov in the German translation by Iy. von Gyunther Proskurina Elena NikolaevnaSiberia and the Caucasus: the two paradisal poles in Gaito Gazdanov’s artistic topography Klimova Margarita NikolaevnaOn old and new apocrypha (The Mother of God’s Purgatory and «Amnesty» by Yu.O. Dombrovsky) Razuvalova Anna Ivanovna«The Long 1970s»: village prose writers and the canonization of the Russian literary classics Maksimov Vladimir VladimirovichTypological features of E. Kazakevich’s prose about war Poltoratsky Ivan Sergeevich, Silantiev Igor Vitalievich, Shirobokova Natalia NikolaevnaOn some theoretical aspects of investigating literatures of peoples with recent systems of writing Dampilova Lyudmila SanzhiboevnaThe mythologeme of «memory» in Mongush Kenin-Lopsan’s poetry Linguistics Rybalova Maria IgorevnaEvangelisms <i>пастырь, овцы, стадо (shepherd, sheep, flock)</i>: from the history of the significances development Vaganova Ksenia RinatovnaThe linguistic source study analysis of His Imperial Majesty’s search decrees of 1800: on the basis of the official papers of the State Archives of the Tyumen region Tashlykova Marina BorisovnaThe meaning of ‘imitation’ in the modern Russian language Nadeina Luiza Vasilievna«And to fly up as fast as down»: the component «speed» in metaphorizing the sphere of motion (on the basis o the verbs of motion in Russian dialects) Dyakov Anatoly Ivanovich, Skvoretskaya Elena ViktorovnaThe suffix <i>-инг</i> wins its positions in the Russian word-formation Rychkova Natalia GennadievnaThe variation of nominal components of verbal phraseological units (based on the Russian phraseological units with the prototypical structure of movement) Khubolov Sakhadin MagametovichPhraseological constructions with the genitive of the subject in the Karachay-Balkar language Kharabaeva Viktoria IvanovnaPersonal and personal-reflexive pronouns as means of expressing the category of personality Wang XiaohuanLinguistic means of expressing the perception in the short story «Kashtanka» by A.P. Chekhov Krylova Maria NikolaevnaThe concept «North» in the imagery of the modern Russian comparisons Belogurova Evgenia VasilievnaThe local text from the regional and nationwide points of view (based on the criticism of M. Bulgakov’s novel «The White Guard») Gevorgyan Mariam VardanovnaThe realization of the actions legitimization strategy (on the basis of American articles about the Syrian conflict, 2013) Lazeeva Natalia Vasilievna, Prokhorova Larisa PetrovnaThe «speech genre» and the approaches to its definition Slepukhin Sergey NikolaevichLinguocultural premises for the comprehension of the legal reality in the Indo-European culture: the demarcation of the conceptual boundary in the opposition «Friend vs. Stranger» Review Kovalyov Pyotr AleksandrovichReview of the book by Nikonova N.E. «V.A. Zhukovsky and his German friends: New data on the Russian-German cross-cultural contacts in the first half of the 19th century». Tomsk, Tomsk State University Publishing House, 2012. 336 p. Scientific life Kulikova Yelena YurievnaAll-Russia scientific conference with international participation «The plot and motif dynamics of literary text» (Novosibirsk, 14 – 16 May, 2013) Novikova Elena GeorgievnaThe scientific conference «The Nation and the World in Russian Literature. Contemporary issues in the study of Goncharov’s works» (Tomsk 17 – 18 May, 2013) Domansky Valery Anatolievich, Kafanova Olga Bodovna, Olitskaya Daria AleksandrovnaThe scientific seminar «The theatre chronotope in the context of Siberian urban text at the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century» Gabdullina Valentina IvanovnaThe second international scientific-practical conference «Russian philology in Russia and Kazakhstan: aspect of integration»