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The 10th accelerated wartime graduation of the Pavlovsk Military School in the faces and fates of the natives of the Ostsee provinces

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки
Importance. The approach of the 110th anniversary of the Brusilov breakthrough brings to mind the direct participants in the First World War – the lower ranks and representatives of the officer corps of the Russian Imperial Army, who demonstrated a wide ...
N. I. Svekolkin
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Peter the Great’s “heirs”: power and administration in post-Petrine Russia

open access: yesВестник университета, 2022
The article examines the evolution of the power and governance system in the first decade after the death of Peter the Great, one of the most dramatic periods of Russian history, commonly referred to in the historical literature as the “ epoch of palace ...
N. A. Omelchenko
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Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland, and Galicia, 1805-1905

open access: yes, 2022
Works on historical ethnobotany can help shed light on past plant uses and humankind’s relationships with the environment. We analyzed medicinal plant uses from the historical regions of Livonia and Courland in Northeast Europe based on three studies ...
Kalle, R.   +6 more
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The formation of the confessional borders between Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Protestant duchies in the 16th century [PDF]

open access: yesРелигия, церковь, общество, 2015
The article discusses the phenomenon of confessional change of borders between Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the one hand and Protestant duchies on the other.
Dmitriy Ivanovich Weber
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Gintaras kaip simbolis: kultūrų kaita ir tęstinumas Vokiečių ordino valdose Baltijos pajūryje | Amber as a Symbol: Cultural Change and Continuity in the Teutonic Order-Ruled Areas of the Baltic Coast

open access: yesActa Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2016
The article explores the changes in the gathering, processing and use of amber on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea at the end of the Viking Age and in the 12th to 16th century. In the pagan sacral space, works in amber reflected mythological elements,
Sigita Bagužaitė-Talačkienė
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The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021
This article offers a comparative analysis of several morphosyntactic and phonological features in the South Estonian language islands: Leivu, Lutsi, and Kraasna.
Miina Norvik   +6 more
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Courland during the Reign of Peter von Biron (1769-1795)

open access: yesLittera Scripta, 2015
This article deals with the period of Peter von Biron´s rule in the Duchy of Courland. It analyses the Duke´s relationship with Courland nobility, his foreign policy and the reasons for the ending of the independence of the Duchy.
Lenka Vašková Šínová
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Average Daily Wage of Day Agricultural Workers in Courland Province (Latvia), 1897-1914

open access: yes, 2022
This dataset contains data on average daily wage of day agricultural workers in Courland Province (within the current borders Latvia) in 1897-1914. Dataset "Average Daily Wage of Day Agricultural Workers in Courland Province (Latvia), 1897-1914" was ...
Markevičiūtė, Jurgita   +4 more
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Rationalist Hymnbooks in the Early 19th century Latvian Literature: an Episode in the History of Reading in Livonia and Courland

open access: yesKnygotyra, 2018
[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] The article explores the introduction of the Rationalist hymnbooks in the Latvian literature during the first decade of the 19th century as an episode in the history of reading in Livonia and
Pauls Daija
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Change-of-state predicates and their use for expressing the future: the case of Livonian

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
The present article considers change-of-state predicates in Livonian and their possible development into future copulas. The focus is on the verbs īedõ ‘remain, stay; become’, sǭdõ ‘get; become’, and līdõ (synchronically a future copula), but also the ...
Miina Norvik
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