The department's staff members took part in the XV All-Russian Scientific Conference of Young Scientists “Literature and Folklore in the Aspect of Intercultural Interactions: Poetics, Topics, and Receptive Strategies” (for the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia) (Moscow, May 26-27, 2026) and presented the following reports:

Evgeny G. Malyuta. “Questions of Saint Sylvester and Answers of Saint Anthony.” How to Read Them (and Why)?

Marianna V. Kaplun. A Stranger Among Strangers, an Outsider Among Ourselves: On the Poetics of the Image of Ikhnilat in the 15th-Century Tale “Stefanit and Ikhnilat”

Natalia A. Demicheva. The Representation of Non-Christian Peoples in the Composite Life of St. Andrew the First-Called (Based on the Facsimile Manuscript of the Russian National Library, OLDP F.137)

Sergey D. Mokrushin. The Influence of the Modern Era on the Vocabulary of the Tsareuglich Chronicle: Borrowings and Their Application

Ekaterina A. Andreeva. The Image of Batu in N. Konchalovskaya's Poem “Our Old Capital”: A New Perspective on Old Russian Events

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