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Именные указы в эпоху Петра I (опыт систематизации)
Get PDFThis article examines the concept, usage, and historiographical treatment of Peter I’s “personal decrees” (именные указы), highlighting the ambiguity and variety of forms these acts took during the first fifteen years of the 18th century. The study analyzes scholarly definitions and classifications, revealing that the term encompasses a broad range of documents—from normative-legal to purely administrative orders—often compiled or labeled differently in key legal collections. The author discusses the challenges of distinguishing between original forms, publication practices, and evolving terminology and argues that systematizing these documents would make it possible to reveal in detail the mechanism of transmission and decision-making and, thereby, the mechanism of governance in the highest and central institutions of Petrine Russia
Sulle strade del teatro: l’epico viaggio della compagnia teatrale di Giovanni Battista Locatelli verso San Pietroburgo attraverso il “Racconto breve” di Angelo Carboni
Get PDFThis article is dedicated to the journey undertaken by the Bolognese painter Angelo Carboni from Italy to Saint Petersburg in the mid-eighteenth century, together with the theatrical company led by Giambattista Locatelli. At the centre of the study is the Racconto breve del lungo viaggio intrapreso, proseguito e terminato sino a Peterburgh dal signor Angelo Carboni cittadino bolognese, pittore, written by Carboni and presented in transcription in the second part of the contribution. The source provides valuable information on eighteenth-century travel practices, including the duration of the journey, the itinerary followed, the costs involved, as well as the dangers that travellers might encounter, such as a violent storm in the Baltic Sea or arrest on charges of espionage. Alongside these practical aspects, the testimony offers reflections on how an eighteenth-century artist perceived relocation abroad. The transcription is accompanied by an apparatus of notes and an introductory essay aimed at contextualising the journey within the framework of the European activity of Giambattista Locatelli’s theatrical company. A central element of the contribution is the systematic comparison between Carboni’s account and contemporary documentary sources, which has made it possible to clarify the historical context and assess the degree of reliability of the testimony. In this way, the article contributes to the study of artistic mobility, travel practices, and the cultural networks linking Italy and Russia in the eighteenth century.This article is dedicated to the journey undertaken by the Bolognese painter Angelo Carboni from Italy to Saint Petersburg in the mid-eighteenth century, together with the theatrical company led by Giambattista Locatelli. At the centre of the study is the Racconto breve del lungo viaggio intrapreso, proseguito e terminato sino a Peterburgh dal signor Angelo Carboni cittadino bolognese, pittore, written by Carboni and presented in transcription in the second part of the contribution. The source provides valuable information on eighteenth-century travel practices, including the duration of the journey, the itinerary followed, the costs involved, as well as the dangers that travelers might encounter, such as a violent storm in the Baltic Sea or arrest on charges of espionage. Alongside these practical aspects, the testimony offers reflections on how an eighteenth-century artist perceived relocation abroad. The transcription is accompanied by an apparatus of notes and an introductory essay aimed at contextualising the journey within the framework of the European activity of Giambattista Locatelli’s theatrical company. A central element of the contribution is the systematic comparison between Carboni’s account and contemporary documentary sources, which has made it possible to clarify the historical context and assess the degree of reliability of the testimony. In this way, the article contributes to the study of artistic mobility, travel practices, and the cultural networks linking Italy and Russia in the eighteenth century
Saints, Spouses, Spiritual Brothers: A Fresh Perspective on Queerness in Early Modern Russian Orthodox Culture
Get PDFReview of: Nick Mayhew. Queerness in the Early Modern Russian Orthodox Church. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. xv + 227 p., eBook ISBN 978-3-032-03679-7
The Spirit of Hoddesdon in Strasbourg
Get PDFReview of: Rodolphe Baudin, Alexeï Evstratov, Paul Keenan and Vladislav Rjéoutski, eds. Russia, Europe, and the World in the Long Eighteenth-Century: Proceedings of the Xth International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023. 336 p. + illustrations. ISBN: 979103440158
Political Climates: Proxy, Population, and Global Heating
Get PDFAs climates cannot be perceived, they demand mediation. This article reviews recent media historiographical writing about the epistemological problems of mediating climate change. Knowledge about global heating is tethered to computer history. Cultural pathways define how the global climate’s numerical abstractions become a set of images, which can be arbitrary and politically motivated. To account for how certain images come to stand in for the global climate, this article proposes a media historiographical method that moves between the history of ecological ideas and corresponding practices of mediation. To illustrate the method, this study compiles a media history of the U.S. political context in which population growth became a proxy for global heating. This proxy relationship shaped environmentalist media, including nontheatrical film, Hollywood fiction productions, right-wing advertising campaigns, and popular documentaries. Such representations utilize predictions of the future of the earth’s population as a stand-in for carbon dioxide, interpreted in terms of per person emissions. At stake are questions regarding the media historiographical narration of climate change: Why do specific images persist as descriptions of global heating? This article argues in favor of a politically conscious historical methodology that accounts for the media history of the warming present. Confronting this specific xenophobic genealogy is critical to identifying obstinate, pervasive, and strangely axiomatic equations between population and global heating persistent in recent climate change media
Традиції самоврядності козацької України в контексті інтеграційних практик Російської імперії: новації XVІІІ ст.
Get PDFThe author attempts to ascertain the attitude of the central government of the Russian Empire to the self-governing traditions and practices of the autonomous Cossack state, in particular regarding the election of the Cossack administration, as well as examining what depended on this approach. The issue is analyzed both at the level of legal regulation and in the field of real practices. An emphasis is placed on the reign of Peter I, when the practice of direct appointment to seniority in Ukraine by decrees of the Tsar, Senate and other institutions of power of the Russian Empire became widespread, thereby bypassing the legal norms and traditions of the Hetmanate. The intensification of the imperial center\u27s interference in the field of personnel appointments in the Hetmanate correlated with the general trends of changing the political course towards Ukrainian autonomy in the post-Mazepa Age. This article attempts to identify the consequences of this intervention in the sense of power disorganization in Ukraine and the discrediting of the self-governing traditions of the Cossacks.Автор намагається з’ясувати, від чого залежало і яким чином змінювалося ставлення центральної влади Російської імперії до самоврядних традицій і практик автономної козацької держави, зокрема щодо виборності козацької старшини. Проблема аналізується як на рівні правового регулювання цього питання, так і в площині реальних практик. Акцентована увага звертається на часи правління Петра І, коли значного поширення набули практики прямого призначення на старшинство в Україну указами царя, Сенату та інших владних інституцій Російської імперії в обхід діючим у Гетьманаті правовим нормам і традиціям вільної елекції. З’ясовується, яким чином посилення втручання імперського центру в царину кадрових призначень в Гетьманаті корелювалось із загальними трендами зміни політичного курсу щодо української автономії у пост-мазепинську добу. Чиниться спроба виявити наслідки цього втручання в сенсі владної дезорганізації в Україні та дискредитації самоврядних традицій козацтва
Birth of the Thick Journal: Gerhard Müller and Monthly Compositions
Get PDFReview of A. G. Gotovtseva, "Sie est\u27 naipolezneishee dlia rossiiskogo obshchestva": Zhurnal "Ezhemesiachnye sochineniia" kak rossiiskii integratsionnyi prosveshchencheskii proiekt serediny XVIII veka. Moscow: Izdatel’skii Dom IaSK, 2018. 369 p. ISBN: 978590711735
New Perspectives on Ukraine’s Eighteenth Century
Get PDFReview of: Zenon E. Kohut, Volodymyr Sklokin, and Frank E. Sysyn, with Larysa Bilous, eds., Eighteenth-Century Ukraine: New Perspectives on Social, Cultural and Intellectual History. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press and Edmonton & Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 202
A Foreign Servant of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich: Personal Experience and Collected Knowledge of an Interpreter
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Libraries as Racialized Organizations: Salaries, BIPOC Librarians, and Leaving the Profession
Get PDFThe theory of racialized organizations states that organizations are racial structures which connect their rules to social and material resources which usually disadvantage people of color. Librarianship has historically been a White and feminized profession, factors that come together to create an environment in which people of color have low representation in the profession. One aspect of this low representation that is rarely discussed in the literature is that of librarians who decide to leave the profession due to low salaries. This study focuses on low salaries as a factor that precludes BIPOC librarians from advancing in their careers and moving through the ranks in their library organizations