The problem of revealing the “Declaration of Love” discourse in works of art is considered. The author’s development on the automatic detection of the situation of declaration of love, tested on the material of the work of A. P. Chekhov, is presented. The search was carried out on the basis of the Russian National Corpus. In total, more than 200 texts have been identified containing textual representations of the situation of declaration of love. 40 out of 200 texts are identified by the authors of the article as the most fully representative of the desired situation. The set of textual passages describing it is viewed as a cognitive-discursive set of declarations of love. The development of the algorithm was carried out based on the identification of the cognitive schemes of the writer and the statistical analysis of the lexical composition of the situation of declaration of love. Among the frequency components of the cognitive model, which A. P. Chekhov follows in describing the process of declaring love, an open space filled with plants, birds, etc. was revealed. In the general cognitive-discursive set of declarations of love, the nuclear and satellite zones were identified and analyzed, the lexical components of which belong to certain functional-semantic classes and functional-semantic groups.

The cognitive structure of randomness, which is of research interest for modern cognitive linguistics is considered. It has the explanatory property — an explanation of the deep mechanisms of phenomena that allow meaningful interpretation. The goal, first outlined in linguistics, the identification of deep cognitive characteristics in the structure of thought about randomness in the Russian and Indo-European linguistic mentality with the involvement of typological data is being realized. The methodological basis of the research was made up of a complex of analytical techniques that make it possible to reconstruct the deep content structures of the human cognitive sphere on the basis of the surface semantic data of the language. The analysis of the motivation of words with the semantics of randomness in related and unrelated languages made it possible to establish that the revealed cognitive structure of randomness is not strictly universal and, in some aspects, turns out to be culturally conditioned. It is noted that the cognitive principle of thinking about randomness is complex, but diffuse in nature. It points to the explanatory power of modern linguistics, which is open to entering broad interdisciplinary spheres. It is concluded that the results of this study are of interdisciplinary significance and are relevant for modern fundamental sciences. 

Euphemisms that act as means of linguistic representation of the act of “infidelity in love relationships” in the Russian and the English are examined in the article. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the situation of the act of “infidelity in love” is presented in the form of a frame model, in the structure of which slots are allocated that actualize various aspects of the situation under consideration. It is shown that in Russian linguoculture the slots “Agent of an act and its properties”, “Counterparty of an act”, “Patient of an act”, “Action as a manifestation of an act”, “Evaluation of an act, an agent of an act”, “Place of the act” are objectified. It was revealed that in the English linguistic culture, in addition to the indicated slots, the “Motive of Action” slot is also updated. Comparison of the semantics of the euphemistic units of the two languages showed that the euphemization of the act of “infidelity in love” is based on similar techniques: the mechanism of linguistic generalization, replacement of direct nomination with a foreign lexeme, pronominalization, meiosis, metonymic / metaphoric transfer. It is shown that the actualization of infidelity is carried out on the basis of similar metaphorical concepts MOVEMENT, RELATIONSHIP, ENTERTAINMENT / RECREATION, POLLUTION, which are identified both in Russian and in English, and the metaphorical concept of SPORT is found only in English. 

The issue of topical problems and promising areas of research of translanguaging as a communicative practice of multilinguals in English-language and Russian-language scientific publications of recent years is considered in the article. The results of a comparative analysis of scientific works on translanguaging, highlighting key supporting ideas and concepts, are presented. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that modern publications on translanguaging as a communicative practice that have not yet been analyzed or sufficiently covered in similar review works are summarized. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that translanguaging is a new idea on a historical scale, which has gained significant popularity over the past years, which, in turn, causes the need to systematize and streamline the array of scientific works that have accumulated during this time. A review of the approaches proposed by various authors to the content of the concept of “translanguaging” in those cases when the latter is considered as a communicative practice is performed, as well as of the methodological principles and foundations on which various studies of translanguaging as a communicative practice are built. Based on the analysis of publications, possible problems and promising areas of research in translanguaging are highlighted.

The article is devoted to the semantic-cognitive analysis of the meaning of the word ‘content’. The scientific novelty of the work is seen in the fact that in the linguistic literature there are no studies in which a semantic-cognitive description of the meaning of the word ‘content’ is presented. The results of a comparative analysis of the formal-logical and psycholinguistic study of the semantics of the word ‘content’ are presented. In the course of the study, a discrepancy was found between the lexicographic description and the psychological representation of concepts associated with discrepancies between the data of explanatory dictionaries and the conclusions made on the associative material. It was found that the systemic meaning of the word content, containing a minimum of features recorded in dictionaries in accordance with the principles of reductionism, is reduced to the content of messages and information. The experiment showed that in the mental representation of young people, content is perceived as unconfirmed interesting information on the Internet using visuality, written in simple language and designed to consume ⅓ of the active time of the day among modern youth.

The question of methods of discourse semantics modeling, understood as a content-thematic community of texts, is considered. The novelty of the research is seen in the expansion of the methodological tools in the study of discourse as an array of texts, in the refinement of supra-individual knowledge about an important social phenomenon. The relevance of the study is due to the interest of the humanities in the theory of generations, which has not yet received a linguistic response. Attention is paid to the ideas and techniques that make it possible to derive text-discursive meanings on the basis of isotopy and related concepts, in particular the concept of a semantic series. The construction of semantic series as a proven technique for analyzing literary texts is extrapolated to the study of discourse formed by a collective speech subject, which is the author’s version of the presentation of speech systemicity. The semantic series identified in the aggregate of fragments of different types of texts containing the lexeme generation are analyzed. Attention is paid to the series that objectify such semantic blocks as self-presentation of subjects of speech by belonging to a generation, categorization of generations, generational values. The author compares the meanings, actualized by the semantic series, with the provisions of the interdisciplinary theory of generations, developed by N. Howe and W. Strauss, proves a partial intersection of theoretical provisions and everyday ideas.  

The article discusses the phenomenon of factual information misrepresentation in popular print media. From the point of view of the authors, misrepresentation is determined by a general communicative pattern — the process of misrepresentation information during its transfer; the ideology of a particular edition and the tendentiousness of the media in general; striving for informational priority and a professional perspective of presenting information. Understanding the misrepresentation in the media discourse as a substitution, falsehood, fiction, and the transformation of factual information, the authors attempt to generalize the ways of translating facts (truthful information) into a version of facts. Based on the material of the “near-political narrative”, which is part of the peripheral zone of political discourse and includes texts dedicated to the politician's relatives or ancestors, as well as his personal and even intimate life, the authors distinguish three main directions that contribute to the emergence of versions of facts. These are: extra-textual factors; a group of proper text methods; change of the axiological mode of the media. It is proved that the subjective mode of modern media determines the use of not so much false information as of transformed information, the share of which is steadily increasing and begins to determine the specifics of modern journalistic text formation.

The issue of classification as the leading principle of organizing the set of texts by B. Akunin about Erast Fandorin are considered in the article. Particular attention is paid to the manifestation of this principle at the level of genre organization of texts and at the level of semantic and character components of works. The relevance of the study is due to the identification of the semantic constant of the metacycle about Erast Fandorin. It has been proved that the principle of taxonomy in the Fandorin corpus has two variants of manifestation — at the level of metacycle organization and at the level of semantics of the key motive of a classic detective — explaining the method used by the detective. The results of a comparative analysis of the image of Fandorin and his literary predecessors: detectives, derived in the texts of the authors of a classic detective story, are presented, and it is proved that Fandorin is the only one who explains in detail his method of investigation based on psychological classification. The authors dwell on the fact that the explanation of the method of investigation is an element of an intertextual game with the reader and at the same time, the opposition of the Russian detective to his English and American literary predecessors. At the same time, the principle of taxonomy is played up in the intertextual dialogue within the Fandorin corpus — other characters in this metacycle also resort to typing.

The image of a falcon in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” and ancient Chinese literature is analyzed. The material for the study was the original text of “The Tale”, its translations and comments to them by Chinese literary scholars Wei Huangnu and Li Xiyin, as well as famous ancient Chinese works. One of the main motives of the artistic and pictorial ornithology of “The Tale” is examined in detail — the individual and personal images of the falcons-Russian princes, opposing the spontaneity, chaos of the bird flock as an enemy horde. In ancient Chinese literature, the ornithological figurative complex serves as a symbol, firstly, of elite divisions, strong troops; secondly, a person filled with high motives, both heroic and career ambitious; thirdly, the authority of the monarch or some other important person in power. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that for the first time the mythologeme falcon of “The Tale” is considered in intertextual comparison with the works of ancient Chinese literature. It is concluded that the symbolic connotations of the falcon both in ancient Chinese literature and in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” are closely related to the real qualities of this bird’s behavior in its natural environment: bravery, courage, dexterity. 

The article is devoted to the study of the category of the game and its embodiment in the form of specific game techniques in discourse. The research material was the work of M. Ende «Der Spiegel im Spiegel». The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the combined connections of artistic stories form irrational worlds. The relevance of the study is due to the growing interest of researchers in the surrealist reflection of reality in a literary text. It is shown in the work that play is a process of personality formation and a kind of free human activity. Special attention is paid to the theoretical analysis of fairytale discourse. The principle of semantic and compositional connection of individual works of the cycle of stories is brought into consideration. The article deals with the issues of realization by characters of literary texts of the key parameters of play and non-play in mythological discourse. Attention is paid to the main variants of human behavior. The question is also raised about the physical properties of mirrors, which are implicit markers of various symbols. Special attention is paid to the spherical mirror. It is shown that M. Ende’s work is based on the principle of the panoramic reflection effect. 

The task is to study ethical legends considered as one of the specific genre varieties of the Adyghe historical prose. The relevance of the research is due to the urgent need to create a genre classification of the Adyghe non-fairytale prose. It is noted that in this regard, the study of ethical traditions is one of the necessary stages in solving this problem. The main goal of the article is to determine genre features and main functions, to identify the main motives and images inherent in ethical legends. Cultural-historical and comparative-historical research methods are used. The socio-historical conditions and factors that contributed to the emergence of the genre of ethical legends are analyzed, various groups of legends are identified, the process of transformation of moral and ethical principles and norms is traced, the most productive plot-forming motives are determined. It is shown that the differentiating feature of ethical traditions is their cognitive and socioregulatory functions. It is argued that their main goal is to represent ideal forms and standards of interpersonal behavior, which should contribute to the formation and approval of moral, ethical and etiquette norms that existed in the Adyghe traditional society.

The history of one of the most popular Moscow magazines of nature and hunting “Okhotnichy Vestnik” (1901—1918), which for eighteen years has been associated with the trading company of the same name, is considered. The archival materials from the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive, the Central State Archive of Moscow, related to the publication and trading partnership “Okhotnichy Vestnik” are analyzed. On the basis of the historical-typological method, the program, content features of the magazin, ways of interacting with readers and competitors are studied, the reasons for its popularity during the period of historical catastrophes are considered. The novelty of the research is determined both by the empirical material itself — archival files not previously introduced into scientific circulation, and by the subject — the history of the emergence and functioning of the magazine “Okhotnichy Vestnik”. It is concluded that in the conditions of socio-political unrest and fierce competition for the reader, during the crisis of hunting journalism, “Okhotnichy Vestnik” retained the status of a fairly authoritative and influential publication thanks to the flexible policy of editors-publishers and effective methods of activity of the trade and industrial partnership “Okhotnichy Vestnik”. The history of the “Okhotnichy Vestnik” makes it possible to present a more complete picture of the formation of a new type of specialized printing.

The representation of the urban space in the prose of the major Scottish writer A. Gray on the material of his key novels “Lanark” (1981), 1982, “Janine” (1982) and “Poor things” (1992) is analyzed in the article. It is noted that A. Gray made a significant contribution to the formation of the Glasgian novel, the specificity of which is defined more exactly in the works of M. Burgess and M. Gregorova. It is shown that, like other Glasgian writers, in his works A. Gray reflects on the consequences of the dehumanizing influence of the city on a person, however, in contrast to them, he makes a choice in favor of protagonists who are simultaneously representatives of the working and middle classes. The author note that in the novel “Lanark” the city is shown through the prism of three-time layers: a nostalgic past, a bleak present and an apocalyptic future. It is indicated that mortality becomes the thematic dominant, as a result of which Glasgow acquires the features of the underworld. It is proved that in A. Gray’s prose the Glasgian locus acts as a “place of memory”, while the motive of “recreating” memories from fragmentary facts of urban life plays a significant role in order to reconstruct the historical appearance of Glasgow or create fictitious memories of it in the reader. 

The process of reception of M. M. Bakhtin’s scientific heritage over the past 25 years is analyzed in the review article. The focus of the authors is on identifying the stages and main directions, trends and achievements of modern Russian Bakhtin studies, determining the prospects for further research. The relevance of the review lies in the need for an objective reconstruction of the process of studying the ideas and heritage of M. M. Bakhtin in Russia and abroad, primarily over the past 25 years. It is noted that the works of M. M. Bakhtin are the most cited in scientific literary criticism and Bakhtin studies have become an independent branch of interdisciplinary research. The analysis revealed the role in the development of Russian Bakhtin studies of such a phenomenon as a collection of works by a scientist, Bakhtin studies journals and publications, publications of leading researchers. Conclusions are made that in 1996—2020 Russian Bakhtin studies have reached a fundamentally new level in the development of the scientist’s heritage, made a significant contribution to the study of his key ideas and concepts, completed a preliminary reconstruction of his scientific biography, carried out a systematic description of his terminological language and scientific theory as a whole, indicated the points of the necessary dialogue between Russian scientists and foreign colleagues.

The question is raised about the correlation of mythological ideas with scientific information and the corresponding object of reality. It is noted that, the cognitive potential of myths continues to remain inaccessible to the perception of a modern person due to his metaphorical language. The novelty of the research is seen in an attempt to verify the semantics of the mythological image of Yuryung Aiyy Toyon in natural science discourse. The research involves a general scientific synergetic approach, lexical-semantic, contrastive-comparative, structural-semantic types of analysis, the method of mutual interpretation. In addition, special methods of depersonification, demetaphorization, and dehyperbolization of the mythological image were applied. Particular attention is paid to isolating the initial meaning of the lexeme үрүҥ — the component that generates the semantic space of the name Yuryung Aiyy Toyon. As a result of a comparative analysis, the essential content of the mythological image of a single origin and the supreme creator Yuryung Aiyy Toyon is revealed in a new light, as a basic concept of the existence of the universe from the point of view of modern science — light, the spread of which is a key factor in determining the fundamental categories of the flow of time and the length of space. 

An attempt to outline the contours of a new research field within the framework of the history of Russian journalism — the history of entrepreneurial journalism of the mid — second half of the 19^th — early 20^th centuries is presented. The publicistic work of Russian entrepreneurs of this time is interpreted by the authors as the forerunner of modern business journalism. It is shown that the key role in its constitution was played by the Great Reforms of the 1860s — 1870s, during which entrepreneurship became a collective actor in the emerging public (media) space and showed the ability to express and defend its interests, including through the printed word. It is noted that even then an array of non-professional entrepreneurial publications of various genres began to take shape, which subsequently evolved into an independent branch of journalistic creativity. It is pointed out that entrepreneurs-publicists remained primarily practitioners, people of action, which determined the special pragmatism of their texts, closely related to the “guild” and personal business interests. The authors come to the conclusion that when studying the journalistic creativity of entrepreneurs, not only logical coherence should be taken into account, but also the synchronicity of all forms of the author’s verbal creativity and his business activity.

The issue of the implementation of repressions against the “Trotskyists”, “Zinovievites”, “Rightists” and other “enemies of the people” living in the Kirghiz SSR in 1937—1938 is examined in the article. Both objective and subjective prerequisites for the punitive activities of the security agencies in the first years of Soviet power are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the interest of scientists and the public in the period of Stalinist repressions, the assessment of these events. The study was carried out on the basis of materials from the archives of the State Committee for National Security. The novelty of the research is due to the fact that these documents are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. In addition, statistics are provided on some categories of repressed in the republic, which are also published for the first time. A rethinking and political assessment of the events of this difficult period is proposed. The repressive activities against the so-called “enemies of the people” in the political aspect are analyzed, since the special services were an instrument of the ruling party and obeyed. The role and place of the security agencies, the mechanism for implementing repressions and illegal methods of conducting investigations based on archival documents of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic are shown.

The views of Russian lawyers of the second half of the 19^th century regarding the political and legal concepts of Catherine II are considered. Attention is paid to educational and scientific works on the history of Russian law and Russian state law, published in the second half of the 19^th century. The author proceeds from the fact that professional and class factors influenced the assessment of the empress’s political and legal ideas by Russian lawyers. It is shown that the professional one consisted in the official introduction by Catherine II into the Russian political and legal turn of the achievements of European educators, contributing to the formation of a tendency towards the prevalence of the law over the will of the monarch. Particular attention is paid to the fact that most of the representatives of the legal profession were of noble origin, the 18^th century was a relatively recent past for them, and family traditions and class identity formed a positive idea of Catherine’s rule and the empress herself. At the same time, it is shown that researchers associated with the merchants paid attention to the fact that the empress’s selective acquaintance with the works of European thinkers left her without attention to branches of law, for example, civil law, which was of fundamental importance for the estate employed in commerce and industry. The author notes that historians of law paid maximum attention to the state-legal concepts of the empress. It is proved that the conclusions made in the study correlate with the ambiguous assessments of Catherine II both among historians and Russian society as a whole.

The aspects of the origin, formation and development of the flax-growing industry in the Tyumen region in the ХХ century are considered. Based on the available historiographic material (articles, reports, essays, descriptions, statistical information), the authors identified the features of the formation of the industry. It is noted that the historical conditions in which the Tobolsk (Tyumen) province was located, later the region, throughout the XX century, were full of contradictions and difficulties. It is argued that, having good potential, having received an impetus for development in the middle of the last century, at present, flax growing has not become one of the most important sectors of the economy. It is shown that the publications of the Tobolsk Provincial Statistical Committee: “Reviews of the Tobolsk Governorate”, “Reviews of the Tobolsk Governorate in the Agricultural Relationship”, the works of N. L. Skalozubova — reveal the state of agricultural life of the population of the province, the research potential of the Tyumen experimental station, the advanced experience of agricultural enterprises, allow to identify the main problems and prospects for growing flax in the region. The productivity of flax in various agro-ecological zones of the region, varietal potential and the degree of its realization, taking into account climatic features over a long period, the economic feasibility of growing both fiber and oil-bearing forms are analyzed. The main stages of development of flax growing and limiting factors for the production of high-quality flax products are identified.

The issues of the reasons, factors and features of labor migration of Mongolian citizens to the Republic of Korea in the post-socialist period of the country’s development are considered. The results of a comparative analysis of the data of official statistics, government bodies of Mongolia and the Republic of Korea, as well as international organizations are presented. A review of scientific works on this issue by domestic, Mongolian, South Korean authors is carried out. The relevance of the study is due to the need to analyze migration processes, which in the near future will determine the socio-economic development of the states of Northeast Asia, taking into account the age, professional, gender characteristics of the “receiving” and “arriving” communities. It has been proven that the government of Mongolia pays great attention to migration policy, which emphasizes the migration of Mongolian citizens to the Republic of Korea. The authors identified the main factors influencing migration flows, and also determined the mechanisms of state regulation in the recent historical period. In the conclusion, the results of the analysis carried out on the problem and the prospects for the development of the study are formulated, including in the field of studying migration flows from the border regions of the Russian Federation. 

Using the example of Buddhism in Buryatia, the article examines the problem of the post-Soviet return of religion from the periphery to the center of socio-cultural processes. It is noted that this means their secularization in the sense of the active participation of the clergy in a variety of secular practices, including the spheres of economics, politics and ideology. The author pays attention to the identification role of religion, based on the definition of Buddhism as the main cultural marker of the region, contributing to the formation of a territorial cultural text, the involvement in which is felt by all residents of the republic, regardless of the declared religiosity. Based on many years of research, the author analyzes the qualitative changes in the activities of the Buddhist traditional Sangha of Russia, aimed at protecting the Buryat culture and traditional economy, which makes it enter into both dialogue and confrontation with the secular authorities of the republic. It is shown that in the conditions of high secularization of social and individual consciousness, the Khambo Lama and other clergymen see their task in the spiritualization of everyday practices through the preservation of the social basis of Buddhism, represented by rural Buryats.

The article considers a part of the essay “Coverage of classical sources on the history of Buddhism” by the outstanding Buryat scholar Lama Kensura Ngawang-Nima, dedicated to the history of the spread of Buddhist teachings in Mongolia. Some biographical information of the author of the essay is introduced. The materials of the fragment under study are presented, on the basis of which we can say that the author divides the spread of Buddhism in Mongolia, like many researchers, into three stages. Secular and religious figures who played an important role in the spread and formation of Buddhism among the Mongols are noted in the article. It is indicated that when writing his historical treatise, Kensur Ngawang-Nima relied on the works of his famous predecessors, such as the 5^th Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsan Gyatso, Taranatha Gunga Nyingbo, Thukwan Chokyi Nyima, etc., and a part of the essay devoted to the history of Buddhism in Mongolia, based on the work “Golden Book / Altan Debter” by the famous Mongolian scholar Lama Shagdaryn Zava Damdin. The peculiarity of the historical treatise under study is that it is the only known and published work written by a Buryat in the Tibetan language in the genre of Tibetan historical literature — choichzhun.

The general characteristics of the government printing house that served the interests of Ministry of Internal Affairs in the middle of the 19^th and the beginning of the 20^th centuries, from the moment the printing house was created in 1836 until the 1910s, when the government was forced to join the struggle for public opinion. The staff of the printing house of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, its structure and changes in personnel and functions are investigated. It is shown that the outbreak of the First Russian Revolution accelerated the transformation of the printing house of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from an institution dealing with printing works on the document circulation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs into a structure that performs important functions in the ideological struggle for public opinion. It is proved that at the beginning of the twentieth century the priority direction for the printing house of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was the task of printing government newspapers “Government Bulletin”, “Russian State”, “Evening addition to the Government Bulletin”, etc. The difference between the servants and the workers of the printing house of the central state institution is emphasized. It is noted that if the servants of the printing house of the Ministry of Internal Affairs initially had the right to receive a social package, then the workers of the printing house had to earn this right.

Changes in the representation of the history of cities in Western Siberia in the journal “Siberian Lights” in the period from the beginning of the 20s to the mid 40s of the XX century are considered. These changes are interpreted by analyzing the general contexts of the development of historical local lore in Siberia and the activities of various subjects of the memory policy at both local and state levels. The relevance of the study is due to the increased interest on the part of society and the state in the problems of forming the historical memory of Russians about the national and regional past as one of the foundations of social identities. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that until now the Siberian magazine periodicals of the Soviet era, in particular, “Siberian Lights”, are poorly understood as one of the significant means of forming the historical memory of society about the past of Western Siberia. The composition of the authors of materials on the history of Western Siberian cities is described in the article. The stages of the development of the history representation of West Siberian cities in the publications of the journal are determined, reflecting various, ideologically determined assessments of the historical past of the cities of Western Siberia. It is proved that during the Great Patriotic War, authors of works on the history of Western Siberian cities synthesized both the experience of Siberian ethnographers and their antagonists, pursuing the task of stimulating patriotic upsurge and the necessary social mobilization. 

Some aspects of the complex intellectual discussion that accompanied the transformation of the British colonial system at the beginning of the 20^th century are considered. Based on the analysis of published works, a generalized description of the conceptual views of the members of the “Round Table” group regarding the formation of the political and legal foundations of the British Commonwealth, as well as the development of close cooperation between Great Britain and self-governing dominions is given. At the same time, special attention is paid to the study of the practical significance of the ideas of A. Milner, L. Curtis and other intellectuals who were part of the group of intellectuals for transforming the forms and methods of managing the vast domains of the British crown. This transformation was due to a complex of factors of a socio-economic, political, moral and psychological nature, which Great Britain was forced to face in the first decades of the 20^th century. It is noted that the changes that took place in the governing system of the largest colonial empire in history, among other things, contributed to the subsequent formation of mechanisms of international influence, which at the beginning of the 21^st century were called “soft power”. It is shown that, on the other hand, in their theoretical constructions A. Milner and his followers strove to preserve the continuity of the ideology of imperialism, which gained popularity in the British establishment in the late Victorian period. 

The article deals with the history of relations between the Orthodox Church and the state and society. The importance of the religious component as a factor that played one of the key roles in the relationship between the state and society in Russia in the 19^th — early 20^th centuries is emphasized. The history of the development of responsibility for crimes against faith is traced. Particular attention is paid to this type of religious crime as sacrilege. The definition of “sacrilege” is given as a property encroachment directed at sacred or consecrated objects, as well as at church property. A detailed description of this type of crime is given and, using examples of judicial precedents of the law enforcement practice of the Russian Empire of the 19^th century, its features are shown. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that it traces the evolution of the concept of “sacrilege” in Russian legislation of the 19^th — early 20^th centuries and determines the main trends in the field of law enforcement in relation to these crimes. It is proved that, despite the all-Russian tendency to gradually mitigate punishments for committing many religious crimes at the beginning of the 20^th century, mitigation of responsibility in relation to sacrilege did not happen.

The question of the use of the official labor biography in the 30—40s of the twentieth century as a means of instilling a sacred attitude to work in a Soviet person, a method of non-material stimulation of the production process is considered. The relevance of the study is due to the interest in biography in the context of the history of labor, in the authors’ appeal to the problem of forming a new attitude to work during the period of industrialization and the years of the Great Patriotic War. Attention is paid to the role of periodicals. The results of a comparative analysis of the official and real biography, recovered from the materials of the personal file, are presented. The question is raised about the tasks of the official biography of the Hero of Socialist Labor in this period. The novelty of the research is seen in the attraction of unpublished data from the production archive of the Gorky Railway, in the reconstruction of real biographical data. The authors compare the official and real biographies. The possibility of using heroic biography as a method of non-material stimulation of labor has been proved. The author’s reconstruction of the biography of Ivan Georgievich Makarov — Hero of Socialist Labor is presented. The experience of analytical research of documentary historical sources and their comparison with the narrative tradition is described.

The issues of the current stage of studying the history of the Karras colony and nearby European settlements in the 19^th and first half of the 20^th centuries are considered. A review and analysis of new sources and historiography from 2000 to 2020 has been carried out. The relevance of the study is due to the poorly studied and fragmentary coverage of the history of European settlements in the central part of the North Caucasus in the 19^th — first half of the 20^th centuries in Russian historiography. The authors dwell on terminology issues. It is emphasized that the terms-cliches ‘mountaineers’ and ‘Tatars’ are characteristic of the historical literature of the 19th century and are inaccurately used by some authors today. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that in this work the history of the Karras colony and neighboring settlements of Europeans in the 19^th — first half of the 20^th centuries is considered based on publications of 2000—2020. It is concluded that there is a possibility and a need for an independent review of the history of the Scottish mission, the center of which was originally located in Karras. The authors proceed from the fact that the history of the settlements of the colonists has a broader chronological framework and the main task of the colonists was not always missionary activity.