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The Book by J.B.A. Sharras about the Waterloo Campaign in F.M. Dostoevsky’s Novel “The Idiot” [PDF]
The article examines the role of the book by the outstanding military historian, Colonel J.B.A. Charras (1810–1865), “The History of the Campaign of 1815. Waterloo” (1857), in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot” (1868).
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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The Legend of Rothschild as the “Napoleon of Finance” in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]
The article analyzes the Rothschild theme in the novel The Idiot, a motif strictly connected with the myth of Napoleon, in which Dostoevsky was keenly interested during all his artistic life.
Nikolai N. Podosokorsky
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The paper deals with the emergence of the conservative patriotic myth issue in Austria between 1805 and 1819. During this period, the Austrian Empire went through transformation from reformist discussions to establishing the conservative political system
G. Ragozin
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Wellington's Men: The British Soldier of the Napoleonic Wars [PDF]
The bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo offers an opportunity to think critically about the historiography of the Napoleonic Wars. This article argues that orthodox military histories of the period have tended to neglect the experience of the common ...
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Since the end of the 19th century, the land of Baden had the reputation of a model state in Southern Germany (Musterländle in Alemannic German), due to its excellent administration and the “liberal” constitution of 1818 granted by the Grand-Duke after ...
Thomas Nicklas
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History in the Life and Work of F. M. Dostoevsky [PDF]
The article is devoted to the role of history in the life and work of F. M. Dostoevsky. The writer studied world and Russian history throughout his life.
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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Free Ports, Free Trade, Freedom: Napoleon’s Manifold Legacy in Institutions and Images
The legacy of Napoleon - the empire after the emperor - is a well-established field of study that has seen a flourishing of contributions investigating the enduring impact of Napoleonic administrative reforms and the vital fascination of the Napoleonic ...
Giulia Delogu
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I.A. Krylov’s “Fables” in F.M. Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]
The article explores the presence of I.A. Krylov’s “Fables” as a book within a book in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, making the first approaches to the development of the topic “Dostoevsky and Krylov,” which practically did not attract the attention
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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Feminist networks beyond the science wars: the ‘female brain’ in the 1790s and the 1990s
This paper explores female networking practices by comparing cases two centuries apart, an experiment made possible by a history of science renewed by a mutually enriching dialogue with science, technology and society studies (STS).
Paola Govoni
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“Those Were Glorious Times, Sir!” The Napoleonic Wars and the Image of the Partisan Figner in Dostoevsky’s Short Story “The Demobbed” [PDF]
This work is the first piece of research in the history of Dostoevsky studies dedicated to the early short story “The Demobbed,” which is part of the cycle Stories of an Experienced Man (From the Notes of an Unknown) (1848).
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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