The Religious Element of the Myth of Napoleon in the Novel Crime and Punishment: The Image of “Napoleon-Prophet” and the Mystic Sects of Russian Schismatics, Worshippers of Napoleon [PDF]
The article is dedicated to the presence of the Napoleonic myth in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment (1866) through its religious aspect, namely the historical and cultural mergence of Napoleon and Mohammed and the worship of Napoleon among the ...
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM “NAPOLEONIC MYTHS IN WORLD CULTURE: EPISTEMOLOGY, AXIOLOGY, AND REPRESENTATIONS IN LITERATURE, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND ART” [PDF]
The present publication is an overview of the international symposium “Napoleonic Myths in World Culture: Epistemology, Axiology, and Representation in Literature, Historiography, and Art,” held at IWL RAS on October 3–5, 2016.
Elena D. Galtsova
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The article analyses the recent German historiography on the problem of the Liberation Wars (1806-1815). The author points out the fact that since the early 1970s the German scholars tend to revise the conventional conception of the Liberation Wars which
Sterkhov Dmitry Vladimirovitch
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“Napoleonic” Petersburg and its Reflection in Dostoevsky’s Novel Crime and Punishment [PDF]
The article is devoted to a specific socio-cultural phenomenon, called by the author “Napoleonic” Petersburg, and its reflection in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment (1866). In the late 1830s — 1860s the Napoleonic myth manifested itself in several
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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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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Napoleon-Sun in Dostoevsky’s Novel Crime and Punishment [PDF]
The article is dedicated to the historical and cultural fusion of the Napoleonic and solar myth and its reflection in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment.
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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Making War Pay for War. Napoleon and the Dutch War Subsidy, 1795-1806.
Just over one decade ago, Pierre Branda published a study of Napoleonic public finance. The study marks a turning point in the historiography of Napoleonic war financing because, through relying on well-researched quantitative data, Branda lays to rest ...
Mark Edward Hay
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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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Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Revenues in Europe, 1650-1913 [PDF]
Old Regime polities typically suffered from fiscal fragmentation and absolutist rule. By the start of World War I, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited government.
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