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L’émancipation des serfs en Russie : les projets en français (1858-1861)
Presentation and analysis of about forty brochures in French of 1858–1861 on the emancipation of the serfs in Russia, published by Russians or foreigners of different ideologilcal trends. The main approached questions are: the reasons of the abolition of
Michel Niqueux
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Monarchy, Gender, and Emancipation : Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia and Princess Isabel of Brazil and the Ending of Servile Labour [PDF]
This article examines the role of two royal women in ending servile labour in Russia and ...
O'Rourke, Shane
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Peasant Question in the Demian Kochubey’s epistolar heritage of 1857–1858
The article analyzes the letters of 1857–1858 by Demian Kochubey (1786–1859), a high-ranking official in St. Petersburg, to his relative Hryhorii Galagan (1819–1888), a public figure, both of whom belonged to the top local nobility of Left-bank Ukraine ...
Yevhen Kovalov
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St. Philaret of Moscow and the “governmental sphere” in the reign of emperor Alexander II [PDF]
The article is devoted to the analysis of the participation of the Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret (Drozdov) in the development of government policy measures during the period of the Great Reforms. Saint Philaret (Drozdov), the most authoritative hierarch
Georgy Bezhanidze, Andrey Firsov
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The issue of the formation of one of the central agricultural management bodies of the Russian Empire — the Department of Agriculture is studied. The relevance of the work is due to the need to improve the mechanism of public administration at the ...
I. I. Voronov
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Urban growth and city police in the Urals in the 60s – 80s of 19th century
The development of the city police of the Ural region, starting with the police reform in the second half of the 19th century, is considered. The relevance of the study for domestic science lies in the fact that, despite a serious study of the Ural city ...
S. M. Ryazanov
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PREPARATION OF THE PEASANT REFORM IN THE SMOLENSK PROVINCE: THE PROBLEM OF PEASANT SELF-GOVERNMENT
The article discusses the preparation of the peasant reform in the Smolensk province. The main attention is paid to the work of the provincial committee on drafting the Regulations on improving the life of landlord peasants in the Smolensk province ...
Krivchenkov G. V.
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The proclamation of the abolition of serfdom in Russia in March 1861 was rather modestly reported in French daily press. After the return to peace, French diplomats had been back in Russia from the summer of 1856, which allowed them to inform their ...
Grégoire Eldin
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The Ethnic 'Other' in Ukrainian History Textbooks: The Case of Russia and the Russians [PDF]
This paper examines portrayals of Russia and the Russians in two generations of Ukrainian history textbooks. It observes that the textbooks are highly condemning of Ukraine's main ethnic other in the guise of foreign ruler: the tsarist authorities and ...
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The Peasants of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Provinces after Abolition of Serfdom
The article examines the condition of the peasantry in the St. Petersburg and Moscow provinces in 1850–1890 against the background of the development of 50 provinces of European Russia as a whole. The aim is to test the adequacy of the concept of the agrarian crisis of the post-reform village, which occurred as a result of the unfair reform of the ...
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