TO THE 225th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: TWO CONFERENCES AT THE PHILOLOGICAL FACULTY OF LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY

On September 28–30, 2023 and June 7–9, 2024, the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian Literature History Department) held two conferences dedicated to the Pushkin 225th anniversary. Scholars from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Astrakhan, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod, Surgut, Ulyanovsk, Kazakhstan, and China took part in the conferences. In total, more than eighty papers were presented. The main topics discussed were: the life and work of Pushkin, his literary and personal relationships with contemporaries, his perception of the history of European literatures and the numerous “rhymes” of Pushkin’s texts with the works of ancient and modern poets, the reception of the poet’s legacy in Russian and European literatures of the second half of the 19th — first half of the 20th centuries, the study of Pushkin’s work in Russia and abroad, the role of Pushkin in the history of Russian literary criticism and journalism, the history of philosophical and social thought, the role of Pushkin studies in Russian literary criticism.