The article deals with the situation in St. Petersburg journalism in the mid-1820s. The author considers the relationship of the publisher of the journal “Otechestvennye Zapiski” (The national notes) P.P. Svinyin with liberal metropolitan journalists: F.V. Bulgarin, K.F. Ryleev, A.E. Izmailov, etc. The article analyzes the impact of the Decembrist uprising on journalism, the changes that occurred in the journal landscape following the arrest of K.F. Ryleev and writers close to him. As a source for describing the changes that have taken place, Svinyin’s letter to the military historian and publicist A.I. Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky is given.

The article analyzes the travel journalism of K.D. Balmont. In 1905, the famous symbolist poet turned to travel journalism for the first time. The essay “In the Countries of the Sun” described his journey to Mexico, primarily Mexican antiquities. The essay was published in the magazine “Libra” (“Vesy”), which expressed the literary position of the symbolists. However, despite Balmont’s belonging to the symbolists, they practically ignored the essay and considered it a symptom of Balmont’s creative crisis.

The article is focused on the myth of Vladimir Vysotsky to be formed by Soviet and Russian critics as much as the further transformation in the perception of his personality in the modern Russian society. The legacy of Vladimir Vysotsky is “appropriated” by the official culture, in fact, immediately after his death. From an unrecognized singer during the lifetime, he becomes a classic included in school curricula. In the process the figure of the poet/ singer is banalized as much as classified.

The contexts behind it lose their former meaning and are transformed to please representatives of certain socio-groups depending on their interests: from nativists to intellectuals.

This article deals with the coverage of the first period of the Crimean War (1853–1856) in The Times. The first period in this article is considered to be the period from the beginning of the war up to the first serious defeat of the Turkish navy: the Battle of Sinop. The articles published in The Times between November 19 and December 12, 1853, which directly or indirectly refer to the Crimean War, are analyzed. It is about the fighting, the movements of armies and navies, and the political game that was unfolding at that moment between the most influential and interested countries in Europe and Asia. This article will analyze the presentation of the material in The Times, the speed and accuracy of the information, and the treatment of the parties to the conflict.

The controversy about jazz in the Soviet press is part of a large–scale scientific topic related to the perception of musical culture by Soviet society. The analysis of this controversy is important both for the history of the domestic media and for the analysis of public sentiment in the USSR. This article examines the reflection of jazz as a cultural phenomenon in the Soviet periodicals of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. The object of the analysis was the performances of jazz orchestras at the front and in the rear and the reaction to these performances from the press. On the basis of military publications in the specially-art media, the author tries to identify the role of jazz music in the culture of wartime.

The article analyzes the political factors that conditioned teхtological specificity of the novel “Dvenadtsat stuliev” by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. It considers the polemics of the grouping of the party elite led by Stalin and the so-called leftist opposition, led by Lev Trotsky. The most large-scale censorship seizures in the novel editions of 1928–1961 are characterized. It is established that the journalistic component, relevant to the beginning of the preparation of the journal publication, was minimized by the editors in the post-Stalin era.

V.S. The article analyzes the publicist component of V. Grossman’s play “If You Believe the Pythagoreans” that raised a polemic in the central Soviet press in 1946. The researcher studies the historical and philosophic concept of the play and comes to a conclusion that the opinion of the work as being anti-Soviet, advocating the cyclical nature of history is groundless. Yet, the foreword gives some clue to the text as being a metaliterature one.

The paper studies the features of precedent texts, situations and names used in articles by Russian politician, economist and historian Pyotr Struve, and unified under the rubric “The politic’s journal” published in the newspapers “Vozrozhdeniye”, “Rossiya” and “Rossiya I slavyanstvo”. The article focuses on the precedent phenomenons associated with literary texts – from Russian epic to classical Russian literature of the 19th century. The regularity of introduction of quotes and literary anthroponyms is also highlighted. The author describes the meanings and roles of precedent texts in emigration discourse.

The article will focus on the analysis of the functioning of slang in the speech of blogger Konstantin Zarutsky, the author and creator of the YouTube channel “AcademeG”. Based on the scientific literature, the author describes the functions of slang in speech, after which he identifies specific slang-related words in the blogger’s speech and makes an attempt to comprehend the functions of such words in relation to the content of the channel. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the blogger uses two types of slang words: professional jargon of automakers and youth slang. The skillful use of these groups of slangisms allows the blogger to reach a large audience, and the audience to feel like members of a single team speaking the same language.