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Blood Mixing

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2013
The article discusses Jewish conversions to Catholicism in Poland before 1795, presenting the issue from the perspective of discourses of anthropology, religion, and, importantly, class stratification, with reference to the most important European ...
Dariusz Śnieżko
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People of the Past and Present. Magazine Stolitsa i usaďba, the Russian Nobility and Its Self-Presentation in the Final Years of the Tsarist Regime

Theatrum Historiae, 2016
As a ruling class for centuries, the nobility created a complex system of symbols and rituals which jointly formed the (political) culture in Russia. Especially during the second half of the 19th century, the position of the nobility was gradually but ...
Zbyněk Vydra
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Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk and F. M. Dostoevsky: Problem of Finding Faith and Theme of Mentoring in “The Life of a Great Sinner”

Научный диалог, 2019
The analysis of the unfinished novel “The Life of a Great Sinner” is presented. It is proved that the religious ideas of Tikhon of Zadonsk about freedom, nobility, humility formed the basis of image of protagonist of the work.
N. Saisu
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The realization of electoral rights of the nobility in the first half of the 19th century (on materials of middle Volga region)

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2008
The article deals with the social-political development of Middle Volga nobility in the first half of the 19 th century. After studying the peculiarities of nobility elections in Penza and Simbirsk provinces, the author determines the reality of class ...
S V Pershin
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Przyczynek do obrazu szlachty Inflant Polskich w łotewskich źródłach i opracowaniach historycznych początku XX w.

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2014
A contribution to the image of Polish Livonia nobility in the Latvian historical sources and studies of the early Twentieth Century Polish literature devoted to the role of the Poles in shaping Latvian culture presents unanimity as far as the positive ...
Beata Biesiadowska-Magdziarz
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The introduction of proofs of noble birth into the Habsburg monarchy. A new instrument to administrate the nobility (1650-1800)

Cornova
This article shows how the transfer of proofs of nobility by Maria Theresa of Austria in the 1750s led to complex movements between Vienna and the countries of the monarchy and produced social and cultural changes within the nobility.
Éric Hassler
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Вопрос дворянства в литовском национальном дискурсе: на примере периодического издания «Litwa» (1908–1914)

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2017
The question of gentry and the Lithuanian national project: the example of the newspaper Litwa (1908–1914) At the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th centuries some national movements in the Eastern and Central Europe actualized the question of how ...
Ольга [Olga] Мастяница-Станкевич [Mastianica-Stankevič]
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From public offices to the cultural or economic sector. How Dutch nobility kept its elite positions during the 20th century. [PDF]

Dutch noble families have held more elite positions than high bourgeois families during the 20th century, and this relative advantage hardly changed over several generations.
Schijf, H, Dronkers, J.
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Nobility Assemblies in the Middle Volga Region in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Centuries: Competences, Composition, Participation Procedures

Oriental Studies, 2018
With evidence from corresponding legislative acts, the article considers the competences, composition and participation procedures of Middle-Volga nobility assemblies in the latter half of the 19th - early 20th cc.
Roman V. Fedoseev, Oksana A. Barshova
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Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku

Lehahayer, 2018
Armenians and Noble Status in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania, 14th-16th Centuries Armenians living in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania were mostly burghers, however, cases of social advancement were noted on Ruthenian ...
Krzysztof Stopka
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