ON THE CONFERENCE “KUSKOVSKIE READINGS 2015” Moscow, 20—22 September 2015

It was a privilege to be present at this international conference, my first in Russia, guest of the Department of Foreign Languages at Moscow City University of Psychology and Education. Themes of the conference were Russian language and literature, philology, pedagogy and linguistics. Conference languages were Russian, English and Italian. There were many presentations by distinguished Russian scholars, on a variety of topics. Attention was paid, in the presentations on Russian themes, to moral and spiritual questions in current and older Russian literature. Marina Scherbakova, who headed a panel on problems of textual criticism, discussed St. Theophan, the giver of the library of the Greek theological school on the island of Halki. Ludmila Silina, who headed a panel on the spiritual and moral foundations of current Russian literature, gave a talk on Athanasius of Brest in the context of the literary tradition of the XVII century. Elena

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