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Счастье, смерть и свиное ухо: Об одном письме Петра I
Get PDFВ статье рассматривается письмо Петра I вице-адмиралу русского флота Корнелиусу Крюйсу от 8 июля 1713 г. В этом письме русский царь, отвечая на приведенные Крюйсом примеры гибели командующих из истории европейских флотов, составил собственный список нелепых смертей своих приближенных. Спор Петра и Крюйса, начавшийся по частному вопросу о том, следует ли царю лично участвовать в планировавшемся морском походе, перешел, таким образом, к более общим вопросам о роли случая в судьбе людей. В статье дается комментарий к переписке царя и адмирала, а также реконструируются политические и культурные контексты, важные для понимания сути этого спора, и связанные, в частности, с заимствованием европейских представлений о Фортуне и Роке в России петровского времени.The article examines a letter from Peter I to Vice Admiral of the Russian Navy Cornelius Cruys, dated July 8, 1713. In this letter, the Russian tsar, responding to Cruys’s examples of the deaths of European naval commanders, compiled his own catalogue of absurd and untimely deaths among his close associates. What began as a dispute between Peter and Cruys over the practical question of whether the sovereign should personally participate in a forthcoming naval campaign, thus evolved into a broader reflection on the role of chance in human destiny. The article offers an extensive commentary on the correspondence between the tsar and the admiral and reconstructs the political and cultural contexts essential for understanding of this exchange and, in particular, the reception of European notions of Fortuna and Fatum in Petrine Russia
Printing Colour 1700-1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions
Get PDFReview of: Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage, eds. Printing Colour, 1700-1830. Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2025. 448 p. ISBN: 9780197267530
Geographical Endeavor in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Get PDFReview of: Denis J. B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring, and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613-1825. London: University College London Press, 2024. xvii + 204 p. + xvii. (Open Access)
ВИВЛIОθИКА / Vivliofika 13 (2025)
No full textThe 13th annual issue of ВИВЛIОθИКА includes a special forum celebrating the scholarly life of Dmitrii Iur\u27evich Guzevich (1955-2025), which is edited by Vladislav Rjéoutsk
Montaño, Jesus and Regan Postma-Montaño. Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature. U of New Mexico P. 2022. 202 pages. Print ISBN 9780826363831. eText ISBN 9780826366337.
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Crimean Tableaux of Catherine II’s Court as the Visual Record of the Russian Empire’s Southern Expansion
Get PDFThis article analyzes celebrations of Russian military victories over the Ottoman Turks during Catherine II’s reign on the examples of pictures (tableaux) featured in fireworks, illuminations, triumphal arches, processions, and instances of live theater. Performing the Crimean conquest via these artistic displays, from the early 1770s—the time when Crimea first begins to appear in them—and until Catherine’s final years, served as a way of incorporating the peninsula as a part of the imperial design and of announcing the Crimean Tatar as the latest member of the Russian Empire’s supporting cast. This paper argues that Crimea’s changing status in the ceremonial culture of Catherine’s court is reflected in these tableaux with their focus on the territory (Crimea) as opposed to its people (Crimean Tatars).
 
Колдовство перед лицом суда в украинских воеводствах Речи Посполитой
Get PDFKateryna Dysa, Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th–18th Centuries, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2020. x+254 p. ISBN: 9786155053115.Review of Kateryna Dysa, Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th–18th Centuries, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2020. x+254 p. ISBN: 9786155053115
Catherine the Great Authors Her Empire
Get PDFReview of: Vera Proskurina, The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great: Governing with the Literary Pen, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 202
Казнь после казни: власть и тело преступника после смерти в России начала XVIII в.
Get PDFThe article is dedicated to the relationship between the authorities and the Church regarding the body of a criminal after execution. Such an existential event for society traditionally fell within the realm of religious beliefs and church rituals. At the same time, the death penalty has always undoubtedly been one of the most important channels of social control and a means of intimidating subjects. It was during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, under the rule of Peter I, that church rituals and the dogmas of the Last Judgment gradually began to give way to the demonstration of the state\u27s monopoly on violence. This perspective of the study will allow us to see in the worldview of eighteenth-century Russia not just the traits of a transitional period, but also evidence of a deep transformation in consciousness. The facts of the punishment of the criminal’s body after death have been documented by many researchers of repressive practices, using Russian sources. Historians point to the tradition of burying executed individuals outside the cemetery grounds, in "poor houses” (ubogie doma), in common nameless graves without religious rites. It is well known that after executions, bodies were left on the wheel, nailed to trees and fences, drowned in rivers, thrown into forests or swamps, burned, and the heads of criminals often remained on stakes or pillories "for admonition" to others.[1] This extensive documentary material has rich heuristic potential and requires deep interpretation. In this article, the historical context of the punishment of the criminal\u27s body after execution will be explored based on three high-profile cases: the case of the streltsy colonel Ivan Tsykler and his associates in 1697; the streltsy executions of 1698–1699; and the case of the first governor of Siberia, Prince Matvei Gagarin, in 1721. A comparison of the circumstances and symbolism of these executions will provide new material for understanding the mechanisms of the representation of power during the early Russian Enlightenment. The conclusions of the work are based on investigative cases from the Preobrazhenskii Chancellery (Prikaz), the Secret Chancellery, and the Expedition; visual sources; and descriptions of executions left by contemporaries.
The article is dedicated to the relationship between the authorities and the Church regarding the body of a criminal after execution. Such an existential event for society traditionally fell within the realm of religious beliefs and church rituals. At the same time, the death penalty has always undoubtedly been one of the most important channels of social control and a means of intimidating subjects. It was during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, under the rule of Peter I, that church rituals and the dogmas of the Last Judgment gradually began to give way to the demonstration of the state\u27s monopoly on violence. This perspective of the study will allow us to see in the worldview of eighteenth-century Russia not just the traits of a transitional period, but also evidence of a deep transformation in consciousness. The facts of the punishment of the criminal’s body after death have been documented by many researchers of repressive practices, using Russian sources. Historians point to the tradition of burying executed individuals outside the cemetery grounds, in "poor houses” (ubogie doma), in common nameless graves without religious rites. It is well known that after executions, bodies were left on the wheel, nailed to trees and fences, drowned in rivers, thrown into forests or swamps, burned, and the heads of criminals often remained on stakes or pillories "for admonition" to others. This extensive documentary material has rich heuristic potential and requires deep interpretation. In this article, the historical context of the punishment of the criminal\u27s body after execution will be explored based on three high-profile cases: the case of the streltsy colonel Ivan Tsykler and his associates in 1697; the streltsy executions of 1698–1699; and the case of the first governor of Siberia, Prince Matvei Gagarin, in 1721. A comparison of the circumstances and symbolism of these executions will provide new material for understanding the mechanisms of the representation of power during the early Russian Enlightenment. The conclusions of the work are based on investigative cases from the Preobrazhenskii Chancellery (Prikaz), the Secret Chancellery, and the Expedition; visual sources; and descriptions of executions left by contemporaries.