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The article deals with the analysis of data and the development of the educational program "In Search of the National Russian Code: Educational Paths". The program is compiled according to the relevant trends in the field of proliferation and strengthening the position of the Russian language and education in Russian in the Commonwealth of Independent States and foreign countries. The authors justify the cultural-linguistic content of the program by the compliance with the modern scientific and methodological trends in studying and teaching Russian as a foreign language: forming the linguistic, communicative and cultural-linguistic competence through addressing such notions and national cultural code, national mentality, cross-cultural dialogue, etc. The materials of the study include the results of the questionnaire taken by the potential students in the open education course within the program "In Search of the National Russian Code: Educational Paths". The article features the analysis of 165 questionnaires by respondents from different student groups: post-graduate students, university and college teachers and schoolteachers in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors analyze the answers in three content blocks: motivation for education; the most relevant questions that should be included in the courses; the most efficient ways of presenting material, that is, educational technologies, forms and techniques based on which the interaction between the subjects of open courses should be built. The results of the study allow authors to make conclusions about the potential students' preferences and interests and round up the most relevant issues and popular educational technologies. Based on the study, the authors have designed the content and methodological solutions of the educational module "Man and the world in the mirror of the Russian word" within the curriculum of open education courses.

The goal of the study is to consider the content of open education programs in Russian for the professional foreign cultural community. The need to design working programs considering the capabilities of the national-regional component is justified. The authors consider the adaptation of foreign students in the new urban environment and the formation of sociocultural competence that allows one to actualize efficient communication in the academic and non-academic context. The authors propose approximate options for introducing the national-regional component to open education courses: visualizing and verbalizing significant events or phenomena of the city's everyday artistic culture; introducing representative images of spiritual culture, getting acquainted with key texts and names representing the topoi of Nizhny Novgorod and the region (the image of the Volga, the legendary city of Kitezh; modern song lyrics about the city; prominent names in the history and culture of the city: the painter Ilya Yefimovich Repin and the poet Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky). The authors justify the significance of the text-centric approach to study Russian as a foreign language as well as linguistic disciplines taught in Russian to a foreign-language audience, including when introducing the national-regional component into the structure of academic subjects.

The article deals with the story of the French pre-romanticist J. Cazotte “The Devil in Love” and the late novella of the German romanticist E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Elemental Spirit”, in which, as in a “magic mirror”, recurring fantastic events of the temptation of heroes by evil spirits are presented. The relevance of the study is related to the problem of the formation of science fiction as a historical concept. It is shown that the characters have a love feeling for the messengers of the natural world. Faced with a miracle, they become participants in supernatural events and experience the “pernicious consequences of fiery imagination.” It is noted that the dream of carnal love, its bodily embodiment, sobering up are presented through a deep penetration into the psychology of the characters. It describes how the supernatural is introduced into everyday life with the help of symbolic images: a mirror, a dagger, a dream, a mother, etc. It is emphasized that the motive of temptation in conjunction with the motives of trial, fall, suffering, fate create a kind of “circle”. The novelty of the study is connected with the identification in the system of characters of the tempted person image as a direct participant (witness) of supernatural events. This approach made it possible to present a historical perspective, complicated and refined, of J. Cazotte temptation motif functioning in the romantic era in the work of E. T. A. Hoffmann and in the works of Russian writers.

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