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Tula rumors of 1812

Шаги, 2023
The article is devoted to a private letter written at the end of November 1812 in Tula and preserved in a small archive of the Tula and Kaluga noblemen, the Ievlevs.
A. L. Lifshits
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Integration Through Segregation: Swedish‐Jewish Emancipationists and the Jewish Girls’ School in Nineteenth‐Century Sweden

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 852-863, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth‐century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including regarding Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’. The community meetings were a male sphere in which men discussed women's role within Jewish tradition. This
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
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Между „памятью прошлого” и „памятью будущего”: проблема ретроспективной предвзятости и идентичности в Войне и мире Льва Толстого

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia
This article attempts to trace Leo Tolstoy’s critical approach to the Patriotic War of 1812 against the backdrop of Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War (1853–1855).
Roman Szubin
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The Russian Memoirs About Battle at Austerlitz

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2012
Development Russian memoires, to the devoted wars 1805-1807 and Patriotic war of 1812 in much depended on changes of public interest to these events, and also from censorship.
S. P. Ribakov
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The Patriotic War of 1812 and the Foreign Campaigns of 1813-1814 in the Historical Memory of the Peoples of the Urals

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2021
The article identifies the features of the Ural region in terms of preserving and updating the memory of the epoch of 1812-1814. Based on the analysis of various options for preserving images of the epoch (through living memory, materialized memory ...
Vladimir N. Zemtsov
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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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‘Furnisht with such members as are after a sort burthensome unto them’: White Traveller Perceptions of Black Male Bodies and the Construction of Race, 1450–1730

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 72-90, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores how European travellers to Africa perceived African masculinity, the male body and sexuality during the period of 1450–1730. It argues that their observations helped Europeans construct early notions of racial difference at a time when skin colour was not the most important marker of difference classifying people.
Sergio Lussana
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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France

History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 488-520, December 2024.
Abstract The existing scholarship on Napoleonic captivity tends to focus on French prisoners of war held in Britain at the time. This article seeks to help redress this gap by drawing upon a range of English and French sources to investigate how British captives on parole experienced displacement in Napoleonic France during up to eleven years of their ...
ELODIE DUCHÉ
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The Patriotic war of 1812 in the book collection of N. K. Shilder: books with autographs

Vìsnik Odesʹkogo Nacìonalʹnogo Unìversitetu: Bìblìotekoznavstvo, Bìblìografoznavstvo, Knigoznavstvo, 2014
Memorials of 1812 conserved in the stocks of the Scientific Library of the Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University are considered in the framework of the Jubilee events devoted to the 200th anniversary of the victory of Russian arms in the Patriotic ...
О. В. Полевщикова
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The Australian Constitutional Framers and the Languages of Virtue

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 70, Issue 4, Page 641-657, December 2024.
The historiography of the political concept of virtue has been dominated by examinations of western European and North American sources. This article aims to widen the historical scope for our understanding of the influence of the concept of political virtue by examining how Anglophone conceptions of virtue were employed by the framers of the ...
Simon P. Kennedy, Benjamin B. Saunders
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