2026 №40

The name of the journal is not from Lef's “literature of fact”, but from the article “Literary Fact” by Yuri Tynyanov, in which he wrote:

“Definitions of literature, operating with its ‘main’ features, run into a living literary fact. While to give a firm definition of literature is becoming more and more difficult, any contemporary will point his finger at what a literary fact is. He will say that one thing does not belong to literature, representing a fact of poet's everyday or personal life, but the other thing, on the contrary, is precisely a literary fact.”

CONTENTS

FROM CREATIVE HERITAGE

Zoya Guseva. “The Poet and the Thief”: Nikolai Nekrasov in the Diary and Memoirs of Gavriil Potanin

MEMOIRS. LETTERS. DAIRIES

Mikhail Perepelkin. A Background for the Young Tolstoy. Alexey N. Tolstoy in the Memoirs of E.Yu. Gan

Elena Obatnina. A Writer and Criticism of Russian Abroad: A.M. Remizov and A.L. Bem in the circle of “scribes” and “pharisees” (according to correspondence)

FADDEY BULGARIN – LAWYER AND COOKER

Abram Reitblat. F.V. Bulgarin — Legal Representative

Natalia Akimova. The Reflection of the Realities of Russian Legal Proceedings in F.V. Bulgarin’s Novels

Svetlana Lougovtsova. “Cuisine Introduced into Literature!”: The Culinary Recipes of “Ekonom” Magazine in the 1840s

ARTICLES. NOTES. REPORTS

Armen Gevorkyan, Mikhail Stroganov. Ivan Shmelyov and the Magazine “Russian Wealth”

Tatiana Dvinyatina. Ivan Bunin and the Artistic World of the 1890s–1910s

Alexander Alexandrov. A.A. Izmailov’s Parodies of Christmas Stories

Maxim Skorokhodov. The Debate on Proletarian Poetry 1920 in a Historical and Literary Context

TEXTOLOGY AND COMMENT PROBLEMS

Tatyana Kitanina. Who Moved and Where. The Recipient of Pushkin’s “Housewarming”

Dmitry Nikolaev. The First Volume of “Humorous Stories” by N.A. Teffi: A History of the Text

LITERARY CONNECTIONS AND RECEPTION

Irina Golovacheva. Did Huxley Know Zamyatin? Several Approaches to the Issue

Olga Antsyferova. Allusions to Leo Tolstoy in Aldous Huxley’s Lifetime Criticism

Kristina Buynova. Juan Goytisolo in the Soviet Union

FROM SCOLAR HERITAGE

Nikita V. Moroz. From the History of the Unpublished Slavic Volume of “Literaturnoe nasledstvo”: Czech Materials

Stefano Garzonio. “I will remain ‘alive’ until the last day of my life”: From correspondence with N.I. Khardzhiev (1976–1994)

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