Senate Square: Decembrists Against Decembrists [PDF]
This article deals with a historical paradox: the participation of former and present members of the secret Decembrist societies in suppressing the St Petersburg uprising on 14 December 1825, Decembrists against Decembrists. Thus, Colonel Vasily Perovsky, a former member of the Union of Welfare, Nicholas’s I adjutant, met Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich ...
Shkerin, V., Шкерин, В. А.
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„Co było nie wróci?” – czyli Bułata Okudżawy nostalgiczne powroty do Rosji dekabrystów [PDF]
In the presented text I undertake the reflection on the forms of expressions of nostalgia in Bulat Okudzhava’s historical prose. His novel takes place in the first half of the nineteenth century, the times associated with the movement of the Decembrists.
Tadeusz Sucharski
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Decembrists Exonerated by Investigative Commission: Lieutenant Colonel I. A. Arsenyev [PDF]
This article examines the Decembrists who were exonerated by the official investigation and found not guilty of involvement in the secret societies. This aspect of the Decembrist movement remains largely understudied in the historiography.
P. V. Ilyin
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The personal archive of Olha Ivanivna Sorokina (1892-1988): the fond’s structure and composition [PDF]
The article covers the structure and contents of the personal archive of Decembrists researcher O. I. Sorokina, renders her biography and outlines the journey of her research.
Horieva V.
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The Decembrists in Siberia, 1826-1856 [PDF]
The attempted rising in St Petersburg on 14.12.1825, and the almost simultaneous mutiny of the Chernigov regiment in the Ukraine, were led by young officers who had recognised that the continued existence of the serf system was the main cause of Russia's
Birkett, Kupava E
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The Story of the Decembrists in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov [PDF]
The article searches for possible allusions to the Decembrists in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov. The novel does not mention the Decembrists directly (compared to Demons, a few chapters of A Writer’s Diary and also some Dostoevsky’s ...
Anna L. Gumerova
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M. I. Pushchin and His Autobiographical Memoirs [PDF]
The article examines the autobiographical notes of Mikhail Ivanovich Pushchin (1800–1869), the younger brother of the “first” and “priceless” friend of A. S. Pushkin, the Decembrist I. I. Pushchin. M. I.
Pavel V. Ilyin
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“A hitherto unheard‐of and harmful thing”: Breastfeeding and Violence in Russian Literature
Abstract This article examines the construction of maternal subjectivity in the context of breastfeeding narratives in Russian literature, from the early 1800s to the 1920s. It draws on historical and contemporary socio‐economic contexts, in Russia and the West, to support its major contention that, in literature, breastfeeding and violence are ...
Muireann Maguire
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N&N themed section: Reflections on nationalism and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Introduction
Abstract This introduction to themed section consists of two parts: a sketch of national(ist) historiography and a brief description of the following contributions.
John Breuilly, Daphne Halikiopoulou
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“POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMPATHY” IN THE DECEMBRISTS’ EGO DOCUMENTS AT THE YALUTOROVSK COLONY [PDF]
The article discusses political economy discourse of ego documents related to the life and work of Decembrists at the colony in Yalutorovsk, Tobolsk Province (1832–1856). We study the Decembrists’ private letters, autobiographical texts by I.
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