Dostoevsky and World Culture Dostoevsky and World Culture 2619-0311 2712-8512 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2025-2-358-369 Review Article Articles About the 27th International Readings Dostoevsky’s Works in the Perception of 21st-Century Readers, April 8–10, 2025 Podosokorsky Nikolay N. fedor@dostmirkult.ru 25 06 2025 1 2 358 369 Fyodor Dostoevsky White Nights night literature romanticism daydreaming The Barber of Seville the Battle of Berezina another love Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The material is devoted to the 27th International Readings Dostoevsky’s Works in the Perception of 21st-Century Readers, held on April 8–10, 2025 in the city of Staraya Russa, Novgorod region. The conference was traditionally organized by the Novgorod Museum-Reserve, the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Commission for the Study of Dostoevsky’s Creative Heritage of the Scientific Council History of World Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was attended by more than 50 researchers from Russia and the USA. The focal text for most presentations, the roundtable discussion, and the seminar was the sentimental novel White Nights. 1. Alekseeva, M.M. “Motiv tsvetka v romane F.M. Dostoevskogo ‘Belye nochi’” [“The Motif of the Flower in Dostoevsky’s Novel White Nights”]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul’tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 1 (5), 2019, pp. 177–182. (In Russ.) 2. Kasatkina, T.A. O tvoriashei prirode slova. Ontologichnost’ slova v tvorchestve F.M. Dostoevskogo kak osnova “realizma v vyshchem smysle” [On the Poietic Nature the Word. The Ontology of the Word in the Work of F.M. Dostoevsky as the Fundament of “Realism in a Higher Sense”]. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2004. 480 p. (In Russ.) 3. Kasatkina, T.A. “My budem — litsa...” Analitiko-sinteticheskoe chtenie proizvedenii Dostoevskogo [“We Will Be Faces/Persons…” An Analytical-Synthetic Reading of Dostoevsky’s Works]. Ed. by T.G. Magari-Il’iaeva. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2023. 432 p. (In Russ.) 4. Kasatkina, T.A. “Dostoevskii: malye formy, printsip dopolnitel’nosti i evrei-Akhilles, kto geroi ‘Krokodila’ i kak nachinalis’ ‘Besy’. Ot redaktora” [“Dostoevsky: Short Forms, the Principle of Complementarity, and the Jew Achilles. Who is the Hero of ‘The Crocodile,’ and How Did Demons Begin? From the Editor”]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul’tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 4 (28), 2024, pp. 10–30. (In Russ.) 5. Podosokorskii, N.N. “K 20-letiiu Iunosheskikh Dostoevskikh chtenii v Staroi Russe” [“For the 20th Anniversary of the Young Readings in Staraya Russa”]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul’tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 2 (6), 2019, pp. 216–219. (In Russ.) 6. Podosokorskii, N.N. “Prizraki ‘Belykh nochei’: mason v pautine posmertiia, maiskaia utoplennitsa i dukh tsaria Solomona” [“Ghosts of White Nights: A Freemason in the Net of Afterlife, The Maiden Drowned in May and the King Solomon’s Spirit”]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul’tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 3 (7), 2019, pp. 88–116. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/26190311-2019-3-88-116 7. Podosokorskii, N.N. “O XXV Mezhdunarodnykh chteniiakh ‘Proizvedeniia F.M. Dostoevskogo v vospriiatii chitatelei XXI veka’ (Staraia Russa, 19–21 aprelia 2023 goda)” [“About the 25th International Readings Dostoevsky’s Works in the Perception of 21st-Century Readers (Staraya Russa, April 19–21, 2023)”]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul’tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 2 (22), 2023, pp. 315–327. (In Russ.) 8. Shervarly, N.G. “Motiv prizrachnosti v romane F.M. Dostoevskogo ‘Belye nochi’” [“The Motif of Ghostliness in Dostoevsky’s Novel White Nights”]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul’tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 1 (5), 2019, pp. 183–188. (In Russ.)