Novikov Aleksei D.Country: RussiaCity: MoscowCompany: A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, RAS, Moscow, Povarskaya str., 25А Position: graduate student of the department of the latest Russian literature and literature of the Russian foreign countriesE-mail: logos404@gmail.com Author's articles Functions of the Comic in Soviet Comedies on Historical Themes of the Early 1940s (Prince Napoleon by Vasily Shkvarkin and Long Long Ago by Alexander Gladkov)