The department's staff members participated in the international conference “The Seventh Likhachev Readings: Literature and Folklore in the Cultural space of the Middle Ages”, organized by the Department of Ancient Russian Literature and the Department of Russian Folklore of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and held from September 28 to October 1, 2026. Presentations were made by:

M.Y. Lustrov (DSc, Head of the Department) “‘The Saga of Bosi and Heraud’ in Russian translation”; O.A. Tufanova (DSc, Chief Researcher) “‘This is Satan's Army’: Joseph Volotsky's Enlightener and Chronograph of 1617”;

E.G. Malyuta (PhD, Senior Researcher) “The figure of the questioner and the nature of the dialogue form in the ‘Questions of St. Sylvester and the answers of St. Anthony’.”

Conference program: https://pushkinskijdom.ru/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Programma-Lihachevskih-chtenij-na-sajt.pdf