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This article is an attempt at close reading an extensive ego text (Georgy Adamovich’s letters to Alexander Bacherac of the 1940s – 1972) as a thirty-year-long literary conversation of two Russian émigré writers. Regarding the letters as a single cultural
Olga Demidova
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“We Can No Longer Live by the Domostroi”: The Riddles of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva
Abstract This article analyzes the rebuses (picture riddles) of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva. It argues that despite their seemingly modest nature as artefacts of everyday leisure, Mordovtseva used these puzzles to make radical claims and assert herself as a public intellectual.
Ksenia Butuzova, Julia Mannherz
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Estimation of Performance Indices for the Planning of Sustainable Transportation Systems
In the context of sustainable transportation systems, previous studies have either focused only on the transportation system or have not used a methodology that enables the treatment of incomplete, vague, and qualitative information associated with the available data.
Alexander Paz +4 more
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"SO YOU ARE RIGHT, THE ORACLE OF FRANCE...": ALEXANDER PUSHKIN'S POEM "RUSLAN AND LUDMILA" WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF RUSSIAN HISTORY OF THE PERIOD OF THE PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1812 [PDF]
This article compares the images from Alexander Pushkin's poem "Ruslan and Ludmila", collisions in the plot and certain episodes with historical events and particular historical persons modern to Pushkin.
Monakhova E. N.
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ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov +2 more
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Public Spaces in Lithuanian Cities: Legacy of Dependence and Recent Tendencies
The object of discussion of the current paper is transformations of urban public spaces since Czarist Russia′s colonial rule up to the period after the restoration of Lithuania′s independence. While reviewing the transformations of public spaces (first and foremost squares) of the country′s larger cities, the authors noted that this field is ...
Rimantas Buivydas +2 more
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The Theatralized Confession in the “Little Tragedies” (1830) by Alexander Pushkin This study offers an analysis of “The Littles Tragedies” (1830) by Alexander Pushkin in light of Michel Foucault's ideas.
Galina Subbotina
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Anton Chekhov and the Catastrophes of Teaching
Abstract In this essay, Ross Collin offers ethics‐focused readings of Anton Chekhov's popular short stories “The Schoolmistress” and “The Teacher of Literature.” Chekhov shows in the two stories how teaching can inhibit teachers' flourishing. That is to say, teaching under bad conditions can draw teachers into moral “catastrophe,” to use Cornel West's ...
Ross Collin
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Control of Rotary Cranes Using Fuzzy Logic
Rotary cranes (tower cranes) are common industrial structures that are used in building construction, factories, and harbors. These cranes are usually operated manually. With the size of these cranes becoming larger and the motion expected to be faster, the process of controlling them has become difficult without using automatic control methods.
Amjed A. Al-mousa +2 more
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Ontological Duality in Rock Poetry by Victor Tsoi (on Material of Song “In Our Eyes”)
The article investigates the ontological duality as one of the important philosophical aspects of rock poetry by V. Tsoi. The importance of a philosophical interpretation of the rock text that embodies a worldview of its author is emphasized. It is shown
S. A. Petrova
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