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Rusia, 1812: Prensa y propaganda en la guerra contra Napoleón [PDF]
The war against Napoleon in 1812 is one of the most important events in the history, of Russia and has a key role in Russian collective imaginary. This paper tries to analize the significance of the “Patriotic War of 1812” in the history of Russian ...
Miguel Vázquez Liñán
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Judicial practice of the Penza Criminal Court’s Chamber in 1812–1815
Background. In recent years, the interest in the Patriotic War of 1812 has not faded in Russian historiography. It is important to study the impact of such a large-scale event on the most diverse aspects of society. The purpose of this work is to analyze
G.A. Chernov
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Leo Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Stories: Spiritual Meanings of the Crimean War [PDF]
The article examines L.N. Tolstoy’s Sevastopol stories. The analysis is provided with hitherto unpublished archival sources, namely letters to Archbishop Innokenty (Borisov) of Crimean monks and white clergy. The study reveals the reasons why the Crimean
Marina I. Shcherbakova
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Julie von Bechtolsheim, a Political Life: Women's Work and Governance in the Age of Revolution
Abstract This article understands how women and girls in the Grand Duchy of Saxe‐Weimar‐Eisenach negotiated core issues in the Age of Revolutions: early industrialization and political representation. The baroness Julie von Bechtolsheim (1751–1847) leveraged war, widowhood, courtly connections, and poetry to pursue a public ‘career’ as First Principal ...
Patrick Anthony
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The article raises the issue of importance of artworks in the historical and battle genres for cultivating a civic-minded person. The desire of modern Russian artists to convey heroic pages in the history of our Fatherland on the one hand and their ...
Suzdaltsev Evgeny L. +3 more
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War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism?
Abstract In world society, all wars are world wars and so is the present war in Ukraine even if the use of violence is broadly restricted to the Ukrainian area (a restriction imposed clearly imposed by global politics). World society emerged between 1750 and 1850 together with the first world wars and world revolutions that were fought on all ...
Hauke Brunkhorst
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Heroic memoratives in the Russian toponymicon
We consider the place of heroic memoratives in the toponymic space of Russian Federation (at the level of oikonymy, urbanonymy, oronymy). The purpose of research is to show the effective role of commemorative practices, which are part of the state ...
S. A. Popov
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Staging Grounds: Loutherbourg and Warley
In 1778, Philippe‐Jacques de Loutherbourg began work on a pair of companion pictures marking George III's attendance at a spectacular military review on the broad expanse of Essex wasteland that was Warley Common. Scholars of the painter's art have largely overlooked these ambitious, large‐scale landscapes, but their commission and subsequent display ...
John Bonehill
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The article deals with the polemical discourse of A.S. Norov, who was the hero of the war 1812, which he leads with Leo Tolstoy from the point of view of the direct participant in the battles with Napoleon.
I.V. Dergacheva, V.V. Dergachev
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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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