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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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The Theme of Russian Patriotism at the Lectures on Literature in a Foreign Audience
The article reviews the sources of the modern Russian patriotism and retraces the stages of its forming in Russian literature according to historical, political and social events of the first half of the XIXth century.
Sabina A Safarova, Inna N Sidorova
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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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Background. One of the tasks facing researchers of the history of the Patriotic War of 1812 is to attract new methodological approaches in their scientific practice and expand the source base.
S.V. Belousov
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War and Peace: Biographical Milestones
The article is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive exploration of the creation of Prokofiev’s epic opera War and Peace. In particular, the article focuses on the preconditions of the concept, compositional stages, structural principles ...
Svetlana A. Petukhova
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Features of the historical memory of students of Russian megacities
In the course of sociological analysis, linguistic models of students’ historical memory, events and historical figures were identified, that represent, in the opinion of young people, the “political evil” and the “political good” in Russian history. The
I. A. Yurasov +2 more
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Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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This article examines the participation of the Tatars of Seitov Posad, who were in the class of Cossacks (Orenburg Cossack Army) and Bashkirs (Bashkir-Meshcheryak Army) in the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Foreign Campaigns of the Russian Army of 1813 ...
Rustem Ravilevich Aminov
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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