English version . department presentation . ... Кафедра . ... The Department of Foreign Literature was found in the Moscow University in 1863 (although, the courses of Western belles-lettres were given at the Philological Department since the late 18th century) and has subsisted till the 1920s when the study of foreign literature was scrapped from the reorganized University structure. ... The Department publishes works in Russian and foreign languages. ... Department of foreign literature. ...