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Catherine the Great Authors Her Empire [PDF]

open access: yesВивліоѳика
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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Correspondence, Joseph E. and Catherine Dawe Davis

open access: yes, 1944
Letter from Joe to his wife Catherine discussing the mail service, his approval of Catherine making cotton dresses, asking her to send a photo of her and Teddy, eating dinner at the post exchange, and his joy that Catherine has heard from their friends ...
Davis, Joseph Emmett
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Los diccionarios de P. S. Pallas y Ph. A. Nemnich

open access: yesStudia Iberystyczne, 2017
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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Danilo S. Samoilovič e Charles de Mertens, un esempio di rivalità medica sullo sfondo dell’epidemia di peste a Mosca (1770-1772)

open access: yesDiciottesimo Secolo, 2021
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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Change of coal’s gas content during transportation to the temporary storage

open access: yesВестник Университета гражданской защиты МЧС Беларуси
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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« Je déteste le despotisme, mais il faut subordination et justice ». Voltaire et les souverains éclairés

open access: yesAstérion
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

open access: yesAutomation
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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Aeromania and Enlightenment: The Politics of Hot Air Balloons in Karamzin's "Letters of a Russian Traveler"

open access: yesВивліоѳика, 2020
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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Catherine II as an Incarnation of White Tara: Did Buriats Deify the Romanovs?

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2023
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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Living history: myth, representation and dramatizing Catherine the Great [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Catherine II of Russia entered the realm of legend already during her lifetime and now, over two hundred years after her death, she not only continues to be the subject of a steady stream of new historiographic work, but retains her presence in a wider ...
Janowicz, Stanislaw
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