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Since the dawn of ages the mankind has been bothered with the existence problems. Therefore spells, magic and sorcerers have always been an object of interest of both secular society and the church hierarchy. The church treated them as a threat to the grounding of faith. Based on the decision of the Synod of Zamosc (1720) the Basilians written their moral theologies containing the teaching of the...
The analyzed inscriptions in the eastern Lublin region enable reconstruction of selected essential aspects of the worldly life of the deceased. On the basis of gravestone inscriptions in the Orthodox cementeries in the Lublin region the author tries to reconstruct the ways of perceiving life and death, reflected in the inscriptions. Many inscriptions reflect Christian beliefs about eternal life and...
The article deals with the issue of religious interpretation of A. Solzhenitsyn’s works of art. The reason for this kind of research consists in the writer’s interviews and essays where he presented his attitude toward religion. The author of the paper focuses on the issue of holiness in its feminine version. The examples of saint women could be observed even in the first Solzhenitsyn’s writings,...
Functions dramatis personae and costumes of characters in the perceptions of readers and viewers of A. N. Ostrovsky’s play Hangover at Somebody Else’s Feast and of the eponymous play by A. Korshunov put jn the staged at the Moscow Drama Theatre “Sphere”. Summary: The readers’ / audience’s perception of A. N. Ostrovsky’s play Hangover at Somebody Else’s Feast depends greatly on the dramatis personae...
Wybrane tezy niniejszego artykułu zostały zaczerpnięte z pracy doktorskiej pt. Zasady konstruowania specjalistycznego słownika rosyjsko-polskiego dla celów dydaktycznych (terminologia papierów wartościowych), obronionej przez autorkę artykułu w czerwcu 2015 r.
The aim of the article is to identify Ruthenian appellative borrowings in the Polish language, derived from the basis of Polish surnames of Drohobych – one of the prominent cities of Polish-Ukrainian borderlands. Given the location of the city, it was home to some of the most visible linguistic changes, influences, and depositions in particular infiltration of Ruthenian appellatives into Polish language...
The aim of this article is to approach a way by which the author construes semantisation of the mother-woman in a mythological-biblical manner, taking into account a neosentimental context of poetics of the analysed text, including the basic motif of the text which is a child’s death. Apart from that, we are referring to an archetypical image of a woman present in Russian folkloristic tradition as...
The article includes an overview of works devoted to the study of multidimensional name-vocabulary, as well as the analysis of regional informal anthroponyms. The author has developed and proved the multidimensional research method for investigating the residents’ names forms who live in certain regions, the concept of “informal anthroponym-spectrum” has been introduced, the formation of this concept...
One of the aspects of the secondary use of proper names, their metaphoric function, is under consideration in the paper. Proper names as metaphors, through a variety of connotative content, relativelyoften provide some type of evaluation of reality. These evaluations can be negative, for example, nowe wcielenie doktora Mengele, żydowski Stalin, сербская Голгофа or positive, for example, Napoleon mody,...
As a result of the 1st partition of Poland (1772) about one milion of Catholics found themselves within the borders of the Russian Empire. The aim of the article is to show content and structure of the notations in the original metrical certificates of the Roman-Catholic Church in Vilnius Diocese (Bialystok, Grodno and Sokolka Dekanats) in the period of the Russian rule. These certificates were provided...
The purpose of this paper is to examine of the mill names and mill village names in the Bransk region of the Podlachia province from 16th to the 21th century. It was discovered that the amount of the mills in this territory has decreased over several centuries. A few mills disappeared, some of the other changed their names. The study area is dominated by toponyms related to personal names. These village...
Various aspects of language capabilities of the famous Moscow aristocrat who emigrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 1560th is considered in the article. For not clear reasons which seem to be obvious for many scientists the prince turned to the translations of religious collections from Latin into Old Church Slavonic. However, language ability of Kurbsky seems to be insufficient for...
In this paper we decided to look closer and to analyze Nabokov’s attitude towards Fyodor Dostoyevsky writings, expressed in Lectures on Russian literature. Critical, full of negation and disagreement approach, of immigrant writer, towards classic is visible in many his works. Fragment of Lectures..., denoted to Dostoyevsky works, perfectly and accurately illustrate relations of Nabokov to famous classic...
The article presents the analysis of the satirical works of J. Polakov: Парижская любовь Кости Гуманкова, Демгородок, Козлёнок в молоке in which the author laughs at the Soviet and the post-Soviet reality, especially pseudodemocracy and moral corruption in the literary circles. Polakov refers to achievements of the classical satire and in some way expands the possibilities of satirical depiction by...
The foregoing article constitutes an attempt at analyzing the principal idea of Boris Poplavskij’s artistic output, i.e. the so-called “romance with God”. The subject of our scientific investigations is mainly the contents of that talented poet’sdiaries, as well as of his critical articles and letters, on the basis of which we tried to outline the spiritual silhouette of the author of Флаги (Flags),...
At the present stage of development of linguistics of the greatest importance for the regional onomastic research that are a reflection of the cultural-historical and spiritual peculiarities of life of the people. In this article we analyze the structure features of the foundations of the names of Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk region. The surnames of seven the largest settlements of the Beshenkovichi...
The glorious city Brest during thousands of years somprised of different states, which resulted in the border location. After the Polish-Soviet War Brest became a part of the newly reborn Poland with borders formally recognized by the Treaty of Riga on March 18, 1921. It was renamed in Brest-on-the-Bug on February 12, 1923 in the Second Polish Republic and became the capital of the Polesie Voivodeship...
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