Kipling’s work in the Soviet Union was heavily criticized as an expression of imperialism; yet, it was widely read and translated – it was clearly more acceptable than that of Nikolai Gumilev, “the Kipling from Tsarskoe ...

In the contemporary sources and databases, we can find at least 89 Albania’s river names of Slavic origin, that were not mentioned in the earlier research works (or were explained in a wrong way). The author discusses their ...

Judging by the frequency with which Peter I used religious language in his numerous letters, it could be argued that the tsar was a deeply religious man. However, his legislation points to the strength with which he tried ...

The sickness narrative characterizes disease as a process of change, decay and instability, which indicates the need to redefine itself. The most often described subjects of analysis are diseases such as cancer, AIDS and ...

This article is meant to be a contribution to the deepening of Italian-Russian cultural relations between the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The attention will focus on the impressions that Accademia Carrara of ...

The purpose of this article is to examine 19th century Russian grammar books written in Italian. The article reviews the history of 19th century Russian grammars written in different foreign languages, which were used to ...

The article analyses the way Angelo Maria Ripellino translated in 1967 – fifty years after the October Revolution! – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s long poem Lenin for the Turin publishing house Giulio Einaudi. Judging by the words ...

The present article’s objective is the research of nominal formulas of immigrants to the commune of Rab and the foreigners who were in a direct or indirect contact with the commune in the second half of the 14th Century according ...