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Catherine the Great Authors Her Empire
Review of: Vera Proskurina, The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great: Governing with the Literary Pen, Boston: Academic Studies Press ...
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev
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Byzantine Cherson and Catherine the Great
This article analyses the history of searches for Byzantine city of Cherson (or orsun’ of us’ sources) in relation to Empress Catherine II of ussia’s undertakings both as a politician and a historian.
Nikita Khrapunov
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The article aims to highlight the personal and social rivalries that arose within the Russian medical community, in the context of management of the Moscow plague epidemic in the years 1770-1772. The analysis of the dispute between Danilo S.
Chiara Lerede
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The Sacral Architectural Dominants at Saint Petersburg of the Late 18th Century: the Cathedral of Catherine II and the Castle of Paul I [PDF]
The connection of St. Michael’s Castle as an imperial residence with the medieval European image of a fortress-church and with the legend about the Archangel Michael’s appearance indicates that Paul I opposed this new architectural expression of Russian ...
Nikolai I. Petrov
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Los diccionarios de P. S. Pallas y Ph. A. Nemnich
The Dictionaries of P. S. Pallas and Ph. A. Nemnich. Findings and Enigmas The main aim of the study is to present two lexicographic sources which contain Spanish lexical material and remain relatively unknown in the Spanish context which contain Spanish
Ewa Stala
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This paper focuses on Karamzin’s depiction, in Letters of a Russian Traveler, of Abbé Miolan’s failed hot air balloon flight in Paris in July 1784. After briefly tracing the history of aeromania in late eighteenth-century France and England, as well as ...
Rodolphe Baudin
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Change of coal’s gas content during transportation to the temporary storage
Purpose. Definition of correlation between residual gas content in coal stored in closed temporary storages and coal’s natural gas content, which depends on the weather, train’s transportation time and the amount of air ventilating closed storage needed ...
Semyon G. Gendler +2 more
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Catherine II as an Incarnation of White Tara: Did Buriats Deify the Romanovs?
Introduction. The tradition of worshipping the Russian Empress Catherine II by Buryat Buddhists as an earthly incarnation of the enlightened Buddhist deity White Tara is regarded as an established historical fact by researchers (and officials of Russia’s
Tsyrempilov Nikolay V.
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Taking as its starting point the texts written by Voltaire to justify the policies of Catherine II in the 1760s, the article examines how Voltaire viewed the policies of sovereigns whom modern historiography describes as ‘enlightened despots’, even ...
Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet
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Multi-Criteria Optimization in the Mining Industry Using a Genetic Algorithm
The present article discusses the application of genetic algorithms (GA) for solving multi-criteria optimization (MCO) problems in underground mining.
Diana Novak +4 more
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